Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)
I agree. See you don't know what part of whose post I agree with.
More in readable order follows.
On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 01:53:24PM -0600, John Galt (galt@inconnu.isu.edu) wrote:
> >
> > In case nobody told you, this is a mailinglist, not usenet.
>
> Wrong, it's both:
I agree. See you now know what part of Karsten's post I agree with.
It is obviously more readable to quote then reply.
The nature of usenet discourse is interesting to consider. If you
watch carefully, you will find repetitious patterns of misunderstandings
and waste between the well intentioned. Dialog looping and dialog floods
within threads are a couple of simple examples.
A flood is when I ask "How do I turn on my computer?" and 40 well
intentioned souls immediately say "Hey I know this one" and post
"There's a switch on the front or side. It may have an 'O' and
a '-' or 'I' intertwined or side by side labeling it." Despite
the fact that the thread already has 20 responses.
A loop might happen when the thread broadens to discuss the proper
location of power and reset switches and the meaning and history
of o- An example:
rir message: power & reset switches shouldn't
be near drive buttons.
karsten message: (quote rir or not) also they shouldn't
near the bottom where you might kick one
by accident
john message: true, but they should be away from the drive
bays too
If one watches for how misunderstandings occur and expand
one can write so as to minimize them.
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