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From: William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca>
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Subject: Re: GIMP vs the Photoshop nay-sayers
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 04:27:52 +0000 (UTC)
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On 2015-04-26, Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> wrote:
> In article <mhhc09$mk0$1@dont-email.me>, William Unruh
><unruh@invalid.ca> wrote:
>> On 2015-04-25, Peter K??hlmann <peter-koehlmann@t-online.de> wrote:
>> > Lewis wrote:
>> >> In message <553bf8b9$0$44172$c3e8da3$3a1a2348@news.astraweb.com>
>> >>   JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> wrote:
>> >>> On 15-04-25 14:10, nospam wrote:
>> >>>> 
>> >>>> the gimp still doesn't have adjustment layers, nor does it have cmyk
>> >>>> and so much more.
>> >>> 
>> >>> Considering the move to digital distribution instead of printed
>> >>> materials, is CMYK really that/still  important ?
>> >> 
>> >> 1) Learn to punctuate properly.
>> >
>> > Oh, a spelling/punctuation flame. How incredibly lame. But what else to 
>> > expect from the dumbest dimbulbs on earth, apple fanbois
>> 
>> And I have no idea what he does not like about the puctuation. Looks
>> fine to me. 
>
> There are "illegal" extra spaces before "important" and the "?".   ;-)

Illegal? Punctuation is there to make meanings clear. Those spaces
unclarify the meaning by tiny amounts, if at all. The slash is more
problematic in that one has to reread the sentence a number of times,
trying the variants, to see if it still makes sense. But it does. 
Sheesh.