Mozilla Mail has no spell checker... biggest loss against Microsoft?

[datalink7]

I like M2 myself (opera 7.1 mail utility)

 

[Cerb]

Seems to me that people want to automate everything so we can spend our whole lives doing the "important work".

Well yeah...wouldn't that be great? Everything in my life could be done for me except cooking, dining, encounters with other people, and playing games. Sounds great.

 

[me4get]

Mozilla has an add on spell-checker. Look Here : Spell-checker

 

[n0cmonkey]

I rarely ever use spell checkers.

 

[amnesiac]

Using a spell-checker to proofread a long, important document is one thing.

People who rely on spell checkers for things such as everyday email should spend a few more years in grade school.

 

[fatalbert]

I use pine as my e-mail program, I have never had a problem with it

 

[kranky]

I have written thousands of emails at work and hundreds of "papers" there, and never use a spell checker. I know I have missed a few typos, but I don't turn in work that has a correctly spelled, but wrong, word. Proofreading is much, much better than a spell checker. If you make a typo, it's usually obvious that it's just a typo. When you use the wrong word (no help from the spell checker), you just look stupid.

Here's a real-life example from my company. A customer made a nasty phone call to a VP because he was unhappy with the number of people working at his site to fix a problem. He wanted "the guru" there instead of the two mid-level people we sent.

The VP hands the problem off to the project manager and tells him to send the guru. The project manager wrote a letter to kiss up to the customer, saying how valuable the customer is to us, blah, blah, blah. And he finishes with this: "I know you'll be glad to hear that Dave Guru will not be assigned to your project."

The customer freaks out, calls the president to rant about the project manager and his smart-ass attitude, and demands the project manager be fired. The president is furious, and bitches out the VP. The VP calls the project manager at home that night and wants to know what in the hell he was thinking by taunting the customer. The project manager stutters that he has no idea what anyone is talking about, he did exactly what the VP told him, but he'll straighten it out in the morning.

The next day the project manager re-reads the letter, and sees the error. He meant to say "Dave Guru will now be assigned to your project." He calls the customer to explain. The customer says he understands, but still feels the project manager is a moron for making such a stupid mistake. So they re-assigned the project manager for a few months, then fired him.

That's how things go sometimes. You make big screw-ups and nothing bad happens. You make a little one, and it gets blown all out of proportion. So that's why I proofread instead of relying on a spell checker.

 

[sandorski]

People who used spell checkers are loosers, you no watt I mean?

 

[Derango]

I proofread and use the spell checker. Two layers of protection are better than one. And I know the spellchecker won't catch stuff like saying now instead of not, but thats why I also proofread 🙂

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: kranky
I have written thousands of emails at work and hundreds of "papers" there, and never use a spell checker. I know I have missed a few typos, but I don't turn in work that has a correctly spelled, but wrong, word. Proofreading is much, much better than a spell checker. If you make a typo, it's usually obvious that it's just a typo. When you use the wrong word (no help from the spell checker), you just look stupid.

Here's a real-life example from my company. A customer made a nasty phone call to a VP because he was unhappy with the number of people working at his site to fix a problem. He wanted "the guru" there instead of the two mid-level people we sent.

The VP hands the problem off to the project manager and tells him to send the guru. The project manager wrote a letter to kiss up to the customer, saying how valuable the customer is to us, blah, blah, blah. And he finishes with this: "I know you'll be glad to hear that Dave Guru will not be assigned to your project."

The customer freaks out, calls the president to rant about the project manager and his smart-ass attitude, and demands the project manager be fired. The president is furious, and bitches out the VP. The VP calls the project manager at home that night and wants to know what in the hell he was thinking by taunting the customer. The project manager stutters that he has no idea what anyone is talking about, he did exactly what the VP told him, but he'll straighten it out in the morning.

The next day the project manager re-reads the letter, and sees the error. He meant to say "Dave Guru will now be assigned to your project." He calls the customer to explain. The customer says he understands, but still feels the project manager is a moron for making such a stupid mistake. So they re-assigned the project manager for a few months, then fired him.

That's how things go sometimes. You make big screw-ups and nothing bad happens. You make a little one, and it gets blown all out of proportion. So that's why I proofread instead of relying on a spell checker.

Hah, that's funny. 😀

I just think that relying on a stupid (they are stupid) computer for something as important as analyzing our communication for errors is a bad idea. Also sort of a luddite-inspired opinion too. I don't like machines taking over such important things, it seems wrong.

 

[AvesPKS]

Originally posted by: ROTC1983
Actually, I do believe that most of us can spell correctly. I would hope so....

Heh...when the 'whole language' method was thrown out the door in favor of phonics, so went spelling with it.

 

[Zenmervolt]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: LordJezo
Always seemed standard practice in every job I have worked to have the spell checker run on default when sending a message.

You never know when you are going to misspell something and never ever realize it.

Hell, why don't we create machines that we can speak through that fix our grammar for us! Sorry, I just think that spell checkers are pretty dumb.

Much, much faster to use the spell-checker when you're not sure if "travelling" has one "l" or two than it is to go find a dictionary. Of course, there is no substitute for reading the E-mail over again, but a spell-checker can come in handy when you're not entirely sure about one of the words.

ZV

 

[Spyro]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: kranky
I have written thousands of emails at work and hundreds of "papers" there, and never use a spell checker. I know I have missed a few typos, but I don't turn in work that has a correctly spelled, but wrong, word. Proofreading is much, much better than a spell checker. If you make a typo, it's usually obvious that it's just a typo. When you use the wrong word (no help from the spell checker), you just look stupid.

Here's a real-life example from my company. A customer made a nasty phone call to a VP because he was unhappy with the number of people working at his site to fix a problem. He wanted "the guru" there instead of the two mid-level people we sent.

The VP hands the problem off to the project manager and tells him to send the guru. The project manager wrote a letter to kiss up to the customer, saying how valuable the customer is to us, blah, blah, blah. And he finishes with this: "I know you'll be glad to hear that Dave Guru will not be assigned to your project."

The customer freaks out, calls the president to rant about the project manager and his smart-ass attitude, and demands the project manager be fired. The president is furious, and bitches out the VP. The VP calls the project manager at home that night and wants to know what in the hell he was thinking by taunting the customer. The project manager stutters that he has no idea what anyone is talking about, he did exactly what the VP told him, but he'll straighten it out in the morning.

The next day the project manager re-reads the letter, and sees the error. He meant to say "Dave Guru will now be assigned to your project." He calls the customer to explain. The customer says he understands, but still feels the project manager is a moron for making such a stupid mistake. So they re-assigned the project manager for a few months, then fired him.

That's how things go sometimes. You make big screw-ups and nothing bad happens. You make a little one, and it gets blown all out of proportion. So that's why I proofread instead of relying on a spell checker.

Hah, that's funny. 😀

I just think that relying on a stupid (they are stupid) computer for something as important as analyzing our communication for errors is a bad idea. Also sort of a luddite-inspired opinion too. I don't like machines taking over such important things, it seems wrong.

LOL, now that's funny. 😀

 

[ProviaFan]

Although I think Mozilla is worlds better than IE, I still prefer Outlook XP for my email; the calendar and task list functions are one of my main reasons for continuing to use it.