Ken and others
It is common practice in email communicaton to quote the passage to
which you are responding in order to refresh memory and provide context.
There is a reason for this. It saves time. Rewriting or paraphrasing
takes time, time some of us (I'll only speak for myself at this point)
don't have. While I agree with you that new subjects should be made for
an evolving conversation, I think it's unfortunate that you're tolerance
for what might be called "text noise" is so low. However, I, even as
hairy chested and dense as I am, will try to be more attentive to this
particular problem.
Reed
Ken Friedman wrote:
> Friends,
>
> Here's another vote with Judy Hoffberg and Tamas S:t Auby
> for greater care with reply function.
>
> This past week has seen an increase in the use of reply
> function to answer brief questions and post short comments.
>
> At one point, one of those lengthy Buroughs passages was
> resent in its entirety simply to post a one-sentence response.
> On recent occasions, long passages and complete prior
> posts have been going by the second and third time simply
> to add a single line.
>
> In the days before electronic communication, it was possible
> to recall something by referring to it in a quick summary
> sentence before offering our own comment.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ken
>
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