All Intensive Purposes

The Casper Star Tribune pretty much has -- or had, a few years ago, anyway -- a policy of running all of the letters to its editor. And Alan Simpson doesn't much like to take criticism laying down. So whenever the Star Tribune ran an article, or an editorial, or a letter that displeased him, he would write a response. (I'm told he did this himself, in longhand.) Eventually, his volume was such that the editors adopted a policy -- unofficially, the Alan Simpson policy -- that a person could only have a letter published once every ten days.

Naturally, Simpson would then write one letter every ten days, responding to all the things published since his last letter which deserved his response.

This anecdote guaranteed true in spirit, if not all the particulars.