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SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC] Adjusted paragraphs
On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Edgar Toernig wrote:
> Nathan Hand wrote:
> > Try also so see this from Linus's point of view. He it ultimately
> > responsible for faults in the kernel, because he's the one who is
...
> > under no obligation to take *any* patches that don't suit him. He
> > is a benevolent dictator, not an omnipotent benefactor.
> >
> > [and so on, all the same width without additional spaces]
>
> Does this program has a name? :-)

It's not a progam. Nathan does that himself, on all of his messages, both
to here and to usenet. It is not really hard to do if you want. Just try
it yourself, and see. English is a very flexible language, with many ways
to express a given idea. Each word has many synonyms, and there are a lot
of ways to arrange a given thought. If you just start typing, only paying
attention at the end of each line, you'll find that you can usually fix up
any problem sentence by just backing up a couple of words and trying again
with some synonyms or different phrasing.

It's fun to do, but I generally don't do it, because invariably, just as I
am going to hit my send key, I notice a typo or spelling error up near the
top, and that throws everything off. (If there are any spelling errors in
this post, they are accidents...they were not put in to make it line up!).

--Tim Smith


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