On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 10:34 AM, zap <[email protected]> wrote: >> i'd be much more comfortable with you taking responsibility for your >> own decision-making (and rationale) not least, you can double-check >> mine.
> I don't really understand completely, I guess well you did ok here. you're posting inline so that's great (you've been good at doing that). >> btw PLEASE zap, i believe i've had to tell you four or five times >> now, please TRIM UNNECESSARY CONTEXT. i set some rules and have one >> person still in moderation, i can't just arbitrarily ignore those >> rules. >> >> do you see what i did above? i cut out everything that wasn't >> relevant. PLEASE DO THE SAME. >> > Trim like this? this time you took out the "to unsubscribe blah blah" bit... so yes. > To be honest, I thought I did trim it enough. my bad. previous message you did, you left in about 3 paragraphs written by me which was *not* related in any way to what *you* were saying, and you left in the "to unsubscribe blah blah" notice. imagine that this is a real conversation. whilst it's good practice to repeat a "summary" of what the other person has said, in order to indicate that you understand what they've said, if you repeated EVERY SINGLE WORD they'd get f*****d-off with you pretty quickly. basically you have to get inside the other person (or people's) head(s), and think, "okay, if i saw this, how much time would it take to read, is everything in it *absolutely* necessary, but also is it long enough (*enough* context) so that they'll understand where the conversation left off?" that's what it's all about. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
