On 18 May 2003 20:36:06 -0400, The Cunctator <cunctator(a)kband.com> gave
utterance to the following:
On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 14:43, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
I don't like the comma rule, because it can
be easily
(and inadvertantly) worked around. For example, what
if someone wrote "in Massachusetts, USA." for the
Boston article. Then the rule and subsequently
software would consider it a full article.
No arbitrary automatic rule is perfect. If the rule was three periods,
someone could write "in Massachusetts..." etc. They're all dumb rules,
essentially equivalent.
Not to mention that a three sentence requirement only encourages people to
add unresearched material which may well be wrong in order to fulfil the
requirement.
Or they may write short sentences. These sentences may not read well.
--
Richard Grevers
I am a nobody - nobody is perfect - therefore I am perfect.