Michael Gratton wrote: > > > Jay Garcia wrote: > >> >> I don't have the time to <snip>. > > > That's pretty poor, it does not take much *that* much time. Process, > Jay, it's all process. Get into the habit, and it'll be as fast as not > editing the quoted replies.
When you post replies to over 1800 messages in a month's time, the time it takes to pick apart and snip replies is very much factored in. I try to help as many users as possible as well as ride herd on 12 engineer/technicians in a 12 hr day !! Try it sometime. > Anyway, what you're really saying is that your time is more than > valuable than everyone else's. You're too busy to spend a few fractions > of a second trimming down the size of yuor post, and so everyone else > has to spend at least that amount of time, but typically more, seeking > through 3+ pages of quoted material to find two lines of actual content. Absurd assumption. Snipping out of context is rude and unfair to the original poster. I don't want ANY of my post snipped. I want the reader who views the last post in the thread to see my original post taken out of context. > By not spending the trivial amount of time it takes to trim the quoted > material, you're costing thousands others more of their time. Amazing how you et al are reading lines in my post/reply that are simply not there. >> 1996 and it's just become habit as we request non-snipping and full >> quoting in the tech support groups. > > > Well, that may be nice there, but here it is considered both obnoxious > and rude. Pulling out of context is rude and obnoxious as well as unfair to the poster. >> My REAL mail address is quite well known JayATJayGarcia.com. > > > Right, well, now that you've posted it here, consider yourself spammed. > So why don't you just put it in your "from" field and be done with it? SpamBots cannot harvest the above address. And NO, I have no intention of changing my From address. If you or anyone else desires to email me personally you (collectively) can ask politely and I'll be more than happy to oblige. > Anyway, it can't be that well known, *I* didn't know it, and in this > case I'm the only one who counts, because I'm the one who needed to > contact you off-list. No, I also count in this scenario. Posting my email address in the header is an "open invitation". My email address is private and I give it out to whomever I choose. >> I will not >> use my real address on a non-secure server, plain and simple. I get >> enough spam as it is. > > > OOC, what do you consider a secure server? Secnews.netscape.com port 563 .. spambots don't do SSL ... yet !! :-( Well now, how does this chopped up, pulled out of context reply look to the casual reader as regards MY original post. It makes ME look like a non-conformist in the worst possible light and scenario. The "shoe on the other foot" is considered quite rude IMHO. Never in my post or reply did I say that I would NOT conform to the wishes of this or any other group. I merely offered an explanation as to why I don't snip or post my address in my header info. It's YOU guys that went off the deep end with inuendos and such, not me !! NOTE: You called my attention to <snipping> here ?? I have no problem with doing that at all. I'll just rearrange my schedule by visiting my other tech groups FIRST, help everybody there and then come over here for a little while. The only thing I ask/require is to please do NOT snip MY replies. I do not like to be quoted out of context, thank you! -- Jay Garcia - Netscape Champion Novell MCNE-5/CNI-Networking Technologies-OSI UFAQ - http://www.UFAQ.org
