As they say on some of the newsgroups, people who use 'noone' alot are a bunch of loosers. Three common mistakes in one sentence there! I hate misspelled words, and the people who use them always bother me. It's 'no one' (alternately, 'no-one'), and 'a lot,' not 'alot' ('alot' is a real word, the basis of 'allotment,' but it isn't what you mean by 'a lot,' get it?). And, of course, 'looser' is not 'loser,' as I'm sure you know.

Now, if only I could have all the people who write 'it's' when they mean 'its' exiled to Siberia, I would be happier. Unfortunately, Siberia would soon become the most densely-populated country in the world, and would go to war with Alaska, China, and Russia just to get the resources the overcrowding would require.

Bob Clayton