On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, David Homerick wrote:

This is rather poor reasoning.  Bad formatting is usually a software
problem and has nothing to do with the ability to write a good story. 

In my experience, it's usually the result of the author being unwilling to
make sure the story fits the standard 80 character line length.  Someone
who is sloppy with that is usually sloppy with other things as well.  It
can result from software problems, but usually it's because someone didn't
take precautions, like changing the margins before converting to Ascii,
etc.


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