# volunteer proofreading organization

"Ashley M. Kirchner" (ashley@suash.com)
Fri, 25 Aug 1995 23:03:06 PDT

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    > So I am sick of opening my newspaper in the morning and reading a story
    > about something that happened on America On-Line or CompuServe and at
    > the same time noticing that the article calls this the Internet.

    	Not /only/ newspapers.  Magazines.  Pamphlets, anything related
    to this.

    > So I would like to propose the formation of a volunteer organization of
    > Internet users who contact their local papers and volunteer to proofread
    > their technical articles to make sure they use the right terms.  Perhaps
    > we could make this a holy quest to make it so that even if the media
    > can't drop the pedophile bomb-making communist angle they will at least
    > use the right words.
    >
    > Thoughts?

    	I think this is great.  Count me in.