Re: Mistakes in article



I thought it was GNOME all the while?

sri

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 03:24:06PM +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
> 
> Hi, Elijah!
> 
> First of all, thanks for taking your time to answer our questions.
> Concerning your request: It's no problem to change "GNOME" into
> "Gnome". However, as long as there's no official decision to change it,
> we continue writing it GNOME in the questions, I guess.
> 
> But I suggest that you provide an alternative formulation of your first
> sentence. ;-)
> 
> The "cought" stuff is very geeky. Roughtly 98% of our readers won't
> understand what you are talking about. The link to the mailing list
> isn't helpful, either: It's hard to see why the mail is relevant to the
> interview.
> 
> I'll change the capital style back. If you sent me a more clear first
> sentence, I'll edit it, too.
> 
> Thanks,
> Claus
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:06:35 -0600
> "Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I just noticed a grave problem (found via a google search -- weird,
> > huh?) that I thought I'd bring to your attention.  I just saw
> > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-journal-list/2006-April/msg00002.html,
> > where 'Gnome' has repeatedly been misspelled as 'GNOME' in my supposed
> > answers.  This is a horrible tragedy that needs remedying.  In
> > addition to some very minor issues this causes (making my first
> > sentence unintelligible, breaking at least one of the links in the
> > article, violating journalistic integrity), it's suffers from the much
> > more severe and dreaded problem of just being flat ugly.
> > 
> > Hehe, sorry, I couldn't resist the over-dramatization.  Really,
> > though, the search and replace that occurred on my answers broke a
> > link, made the first part of my first answer nonsensical, and makes my
> > words not self-consistent.  I'd appreciate it if the mis-corrections
> > to my spellings of Gnome could be reverted.
> > 
> > Thanks for all your hard work!
> > Elijah
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