On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:12:23 -0800, (Glenna Rose)
wrote:

Gawd. I'm a professional secretary, or have been many years of my life
(even had a service bureau for 12 years), and I send text messages such as:
"R U going 2 B there 2?" Of course, in a letter, it's an entirely
different matter, more like "Do your plans include attending the event?"
(yeah,right!)

There's a difference between a text message, where you have a limited
amount of space to send a message, and Usenet, where you have no
limits. As a secretary, I'm sure you don't use shorthand when writing
online, any more than it should be acceptable to use "text-speak"
outside of the text message environment.