Edward Ned Harvey,

Please, before you condemn everyone who uses the Jive forums as being l0sers
and id10t's, go and use it yourself to post a day's worth of mail replies.
Find out *for yourself* how hard or easy it is to actually live life the way
you are preaching, because, in the end, unless you walk in their shoes and
show thru your actions that you merit people's respect, nobody gives a damn
what you have to say.  Most of us here have lived with Jive's foibles long
enough to realize that there is a fundamental conceptual flaw in trying to
gateway between a forum where the entire thread history is presented in the
user interface in the order it was generated, and where quoted text is
discouraged and bad form and a mail thread where those things are explicitly
not true.  In other words, it isn't Jive's fault, nor is it the Jive user's
fault - from their perspective, they don't see the problem.  It is only you,
who chose to use a deficient user interface (mail) to follow their
conversation, who has the problem....

  -John

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Edward Ned Harvey
<[email protected]>wrote:

> > From: [email protected] [mailto:opensolaris-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Svein Skogen
> >
> > As you have been told before, the users using the jive-forum doesn't
> > have this luxury without a lot of manual work. Those who are using it
> > as
> > a mailinglist do.
> >
> > Please stick to the topic in the mail, and stop blaming the format if
> > you dislike the message.
>
> I am not expressing a personal opinion, such as "copy and paste is too much
> work."  I am expressing an objective position:  If you don't quote
> messages,
> it's difficult or impossible for readers to know what you're replying to.
>
>
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