On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Justin H. wrote:
> arent "trimmed". What does take up a lot of space and time > are huge email threads started b/c some joker has nothing more > productive to do than be the "netiquette police officer". > thats my 2 cents. if you don't like the topic of conversation, especially one as tedious as this, *change* it. don't bitch about it in a thoroughly unentertaining way while not adding anything except for insipid, uninformed remarks about jokers and net police. if you're going to insult people, at least have the nuts to do it straight out, instead of pulling that junior high school debating class "my two cents" bullshit. people have posted, with remarkable politeness and clarity, why they think it's good sense both from a courtesy and a usability standpoint to trim posts, and most of the arguments against that have been remarkably defensive, with gratuitous, asinine, insulting, sneering references to net police or elitists or pretentiousness or what have you. although your Deconstruction of an Email is a fascinating work, it does show an apparent unfamiliarity with the hordes of people that actually respond sequentially to points in the body of the email, as opposed to just (pointlessly) tacking the whole thing on to the bottom. you may not do that, but you don't even have to take my word for it to believe that others do, so long as you have figured out how to use a browser and what a search engine is. perhaps you think "some joker has nothing more productive to do than be the "netiquette police officer"" can be taken in a less than insulting manner. so a remark about "dumbasses that never learned to use email" shouldn't faze you at all. just my two cents, of course. -_== So what?
