Actually, perhaps there's a way for people to address this by using their email program with it's associated spell-checker. I'm not sure about that, yet, but there's probably a mode in which the posts can be spell-checked and selectively rejected that way, too.

If I guy can't spell, he should find out for himself how to spell the unrecognized words, though. If the only problem is that he can't type, well, the software can help with that. True, spell-checkers can't filter out syntax errors, e.g. correctly spelled but incorrectly applied words, e.g. homonyms, but that's a learning curve issue and it wouldn't be rejected. People can figure out when what's happened when someone says "there" when they mean "their" or "they're." They can even figure out that "than" often means "then," and "your" often really means "you're." In some cases it's pure laziness that lets these things through.

The intake side of Craig's website can use the same dictionary to do the checks, and, one can add words to that, such as the names given to components, or to people.

Yes, spelling is a problem, but not for those who read English regularly. It's just the TV and iPod addicts who have trouble spelling words correctly. The main thing, of course, is to avoid the typos.

If we're going to use English as the communication vehicle, and that's only be cause English speakers are the ones too linguistically inept to learn a different language, unlike Europeans, Asians, or Africans, on whom it's been imposed, it should be CORRECT English, or, at least, a serious attempt at it. We can help our colleagues from non-English-speaking cultures to become more proficient at the language used here by doing it correctly ourselves and routinely correcting their abuses, be they out of ignorance, or carelessness.

I know that when I was learning English, I'd have appreciated correction of my grammar, syntax, and orthography when it was needed. Perhaps others would, too.

I'd point out, however, that, from what I've observed, most of the typos, misspellings, and syntax errors come from the U.S, Brittain, and Oz, and not from Asia, Africa, and Europe. Those of us who are relatively proficient in English should see to it that the example we provide is correct. I'd not be surprised to learn that the all-too-frequent use of SMS abbreviations is from people who wish to conceal their inability to decide on the correct usage or spelling, rather that their unwillingness to spell words out.

Whether one likes our choice of language or not, it's a fact that English is the chosen vehicle here and throughout the www, so I think it wise to make this forum as easy a vehicle for learning the language as we can. That means that WE English-speakers have to go the "extra mile," in that we take pains to make our comments correct in grammar, syntax, and, as it's written, orthography (That's spelling, for those of you who didn't pay attention in school!).

RE