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Re: hebrew in netscape



On Wed, 03 Jul 1996 18:51:45 +0300, you wrote:

>Omer Zak wrote:
>|On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Amos Shapira wrote:
>|
>|> In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.960703100138.27444B-100000@dns2.netvision.net.il> 
>|you
>|>  write:
>|> |hi all
>|> |does any1 happen to have some hebrew fonts for use with netscape under 
>|> |linux ?
>|> |10x
>|> |hilik
>|> 
>|> If you'll bother to write messages in proper English I'll bother to
>|> give you usefull, positive answers.
>|
>|I find this kind of reply to be impolite, bordering on the offensive.  
>|Even though my own written English is pretty good, I don't believe that 
>|people should be judged by the grammatical structure of their written 
>|English, especially if it is not their native language.
>|
>|It was clear (at least to me) what the guy wanted, even though he didn't 
>|exactly put it in the correct grammatical structure.
>
>Well, who did this guy think he was talking to when he spelt his
>message that way?
>
>I don't know him, I'm not a personal friend of his, I try to be polite
>when I write to people over the net, I expect people to show minimal
>respect when they ask for help.

What the hell are you talking about?!?! There was nothing impolite in
what he wrote. It was also in correct English with some keypress
saving tricks which are quite common on the net.
Why is that disrespectful ?
I really don't understand what the fuss was about.

>
>How would you react if some total stranger on the street startted
>talking to you that way?
>

Nobody can talk that way, only write.



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