----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonja van Baardwijk-Holten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 3:05 PM Subject: Re: Lurkers afraid of flames?
> 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've tried that, FWIW. When I did, I found that a thread of long posts turned into a hydrid monster of two or three or four or five interconnected threads of long posts. I know for me, that makes harder to follow. I think the suggestion of forgetting about responding to individual points in a long posts can be worthwhile, if an answer as a whole can be devised. It is probably worth the extra work if it adds to understanding. I think that the time it adds to understanding and the time it confuses the preson being responded to may balance out. I'll be willing to experiment, but I'm guessing that there isn't one best way to do it. Dan M.
