To All - Even though I don't follow Glen's 5 commandments religiously (or even well), I appreciate the attempt to normalize the stylization of the conversations here.
I'm facile enough with my own mail-tool and auxiliary tools to *function* when people get overly idiosyncratic with their mail-client use and formatting. I live with the HTML that sometimes gets embedded by some clients/modes of use. I *prefer* that people inline images (rather than attach, requiring opening in another tool, etc.) and ??? which I think is usually effected through HTML. I believed until "just now" that what I see as "blue text with a vertical line on the left" was embedded HTML, i now see it is just the way Thunderbird renders the (now ancient) Unix Mail formatting of a ">" preceding the line when included (and ">>" etc.) I prefer *bold* and _underline_ and -italics- markup conventions as well as (HTML again?) fixed/variable width as the only font conventions, though I"m guilty of using the HTML formatting (bullets, indentions etc) and even the Bold/Italics/Underline bits sometimes. I'm a larder, but I've tried to cut down on that which also cuts down on the exponential growth of conversations if I don't respond to every point one of you makes with "two thoughts", etc. I will redouble my efforts to keep the FriAM thread R0 < 1.0. Everything Glen says about trimming the post to what you are responding to and sporadically summarizing are things I really appreciate when others do it (well), though sometimes if done poorly it feels like misappropriating a thread. We have been so thread-bendy (thread-shreddy) of late that it feels like *everyone* has given up on this, but I suspect we might be able to rein ourselves in (I caught myself just now almost continuing this under Santa Fe Plaza Riot! - Steve On 6/3/20 5:29 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > 0th lesson: Reply, don't Forward. > 1st lesson: Don't lard, whole thoughts only, top or bottom posted. > 2nd lesson: Trim the parts of the post you're responding to down to the part > you're responding to. > 3rd lesson: Sporadically summarize the gist of the thread including > edited/selected (for and against) [ir]relevant sub-threads. > 4th lesson: Don't use a web client. Download all of the posts, and download > the whole of every post, including the headers. > > And, no. *I* will never use HTML compostion unless it's by accident because > I'm on a stupid ... I mean "smart" ... device wherein I can't figure out how > to make it plain text. What does HTML get you anyway? ... except for extra > formatting that takes even more tech to handle well? Now, if you really do > NOT want to use email, then don't use email. Move to a different forum > technology. There's a-plenty out there. > > On 6/3/20 12:21 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> */[NST===> I hear you callin’ glen, but I genuinely don’t know how to >> respond. If you have ways that we might organize our conversations so they >> made more sense, and you are willing to give expert-to-citizen instructions, >> I promise to try them. In the meantime, you couldn’t, by any chance, >> speaking of Ludditry, be seduced into using HTML?<===nst] /* -- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... -..-. .- .-. . -..-. - .... . -..-. . ... ... . -. - .. .- .-.. -..-. .-- --- .-. -.- . .-. ... FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
