At 09:31 AM Friday 4/13/2007, Julia Thompson wrote: >Martin Lewis wrote: > > On 4/13/07, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> Martin is a decent fellow. I think his remarks reflect how things are > >>> done differently over on Culture and not any sort of personal attack. > >>> Over yonder folks are expected to add comment to posted news items. > >>> Austere postings of the sort that are frequent here are viewed as bad > >>> netiquette. > >>> It is one example of how the net ethic differs on different lists. > >> It's generally a good idea to spend some time *observing* how things are > >> done in a particular place before barging in with habits learned > elsewhere. > > > > I think five years of reading Brin-L is long enough to get the idea, > > to be honest. This isn't about differing netiquette but about what > > communication actually consists of. > >Thanks for clarifying your intent! > >Ronn! does have the habit of posting bare stuff. He has occasionally >been my first source of information on things. (If I had read brin-l >that morning *before* anything else, it would have been, in that case.)
FWIW, if you look at the time stamp (and do any necessary conversions for your own time zone) I posted that at 4:33 in the morning here (Julia is in the same time zone) figuring that some folks (at least here in the Western hemisphere time zones) might be like me and not heard about it prior to that (having perhaps been asleep during the previous several hours and having like many of us gotten up and checked their e-mail before turning on the TV news or whatever). Sorry if it was old news to those in perhaps the European contingent where by then it would have been mid-morning or later and folks might have had time to digest the news and come up with appropriate commentary while some of us were still trying to wake up :) . . . >Then other people respond, or not. > >And then Ronn! posts a wonderfully snarky response to whatever. I think >his snark is well worth the wait, personally. :) Thank you. (I choose to take that as a compliment. ;) ) It is also a matter of in most cases having to read the "whatever" before generating the appropriate snarky response to it, as all too often these threads go off in directions no one could predict beforehand. If I think of a comment at the time I may make it (frex perhaps had I been the first to post the dinosaur story I might have included the reference to the pic from "Science Made Stupid" in that initial post) but sometimes (as in this case) nothing initially occurs to me except for the desire to share the information with those I think might be interested in it and see where things go from there. Also as indicated above depending on the circumstances sometimes the brain has to be brought up to speed before it generates any useful comments . . . Those Who Are Thinking That They Have Been Waiting For The Past Ten Years Or So For My Brain To Come Up To Speed And Make Any Useful Comments To The List Need Not Express That Opinion Maru -- Ronn! :) "Sunrise is Nature's way of telling you it's bedtime." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
