Actually the practice of using an * has long been used here. I will bet you I can find some posts where Shel has done it himself. :-)
I agree it is rather silly. Tom C. "I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered." >From: Douglas Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Stupid Pentax D-SLR Question >Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 14:09:36 -0700 (PDT) > > > >--- "Shel Belinkoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > What's the problem here? Why don't you spell out > > Canon and Nikon? > >This is a carryover from the DPR forums and some other >sites, where as a sort of joke people '*' out other >camera companies' names as though they were >obscenities. > >I always thought it was a little silly but actually >have been taken to task for spelling out a name (!) so >I figured it was prudent just not to do it. > >I see it is not frowned upon here so I will use real >names from now on :-). > >New Doug > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >http://mail.yahoo.com > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
