If it was me you were referring to I apologize for not cutting previous posts from my posting. Some like it some don't. I would also note that those of us with different programs all spend considerable time trying to format what we send so that they are visually coherent. I often send out things that come back with sentences of all lengths and difficult to follow (and I posted it and deliberately set the line lengths so that they were easy to read). But I tried. The recent post was six pages of writing which is about what I post all the time. So I didn't think Lord Russell was overly long. It's hard to be simple in a language that has problems with position, relationship and relativity and reduces everything to stones rather than action.
REH -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 8:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Futurework] [META] Mail netiquette is a SOCIOLIST! Posting a few lines of new text along with 1500 lines/100K of quoted text from previous posts been recognized as poor netiquette for two decades. Good netiquette is to use your mail client to edit the quoted text down to the lines or paragraphs to which your current comments apply or respond. [1] Da ich keine Zeit habe, Dir einen kurzen Brief zu schreiben, schreibe ich Dir einen langen. -- Goethe Not to mention the annoyance of posts that include 100+ K of trivial images and PR bumpf from a cited web page and the choice of software options that duplicate everything you post in alternative formats -- typically 7 bit ASCII text and HTML -- with everything base64 encoded. Well, I realize that I'm an old-school crank. [2] Now everybody just clicks one virtual button or another, whacks out a few lines and hits send without any clue to what's really being sent. But I'm getting tired of decoding or reformatting nearly every FW post and then editing out the superfluous 70% to 90%. - Mike [1] This is unlike business or highly technical email in which having full prior text of a (possibly lengthy) exchange in every message is insurance against introducing errors into the business or technology process. [2] Isn't it curious that there can be an "old school" with regard to anything mediated by the internet? -- Michael Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada .~. /V\ [email protected] /( )\ http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/ ^^-^^ _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
