"Marvin Long, Jr." schreef: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2002, Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten wrote: > > ...some L3 length usually won't bother me -- but the structure. A long post that > interleaves quotations from other posters with one's own comments is > something I find very distracting. These are hard to avoid sometimes, but > it a person has a lot to say, I think it's better to take a little more > time to put a long post into a more accessible structure rather than > simply chopping up somebody else's long post into bits and then responding > to the bits with bits of one's own. > > But ... > > > During my education they always thought me that you need to make your point in > > as short and compact a text as possible. Otherwise you risk that your audience > > is either totally intimidated or bored to death at the end of a presentation. > > Neither is good for a full and comprehensive discussion of topics. > > ... sometimes a topic is genuinely complicated, and if not everbody wants > to discuss Kant and Quantum Mechanics, then one shouldn't hold a grudge > against those who do enjoy such things. Generally speaking, listmembers > owe it to one another to try to be clear. Nobody owes it to anybody, > however, to be really interested in exactly what everybody else is. :-)
Actually what you said above is just what I meant. Indeed some posters use an unaccessible and very loose structure. But that also has something to do with keeping text compact. And keeping it as short as possible can sometimes mean that you have to chop up the original thread into several smaller ones. I try to do that wherever possible but it takes a lot of time and I simply cannot compete with the speed readers on this list. But I feel dat it does help the discussion to keep topics accesible for everybody. (I'd never be as presumptious to participate in discussions of quantum mechanics, free will and/or Kant however.) Then again since changing of thread headers already seems to be somewhat of a task to the majority of the list, I'll refrain from making the suggestion of chopping up threads into bite size chunks. ;o) Sonja [EMAIL PROTECTED]
