<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- In [email protected], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote:
<snip>
> > I don't think I said self-evident. I think I said
> > "obvious."
>
> I never said, or meant to imply that you did. Sorry if you inferred
> it. I may add layers of explanatory text next time to make it
> clearer.
Given that "self-evident" is often used when one
actually means "obvious," in this case an explanatory
note would have been helpful.
<snip>
> Not all posts are about you. Though we all make that mistaken
> inference sometimes -- all comments refers to our posts. I could
> post the disclaimer "this is a geneal comment not directed at
> anyone or their posts..." but that would get tedious.
When for some reason I can't respond to the original
post but have to respond to a quote of it in somebody
else's response (as you did here), I do explain that's
what I'm doing. I also delete the response of the
second person so that only what I'm responding to is
quoted in my post. That avoids confusion.
But I do this only when I have to (e.g., when the
original has disappeared or never showed up). Since
that's pretty rare, I don't have to do it often enough
for it to become tedious.
In any case, all the above (including responding to
the original post whenever possible) is just generally
good netiquette, since it's natural to assume that
when someone responds to a post of yours, they're,
you know, responding to your post.
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