On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 09:32:28AM -0700, Doran L. Barton wrote: > Not long ago, Stephen Shaw proclaimed...
> The downside of trimming and inline/bottom posting is that it > requires effort on the part of the respondent and it is universally > known that anything which requires effort is generally not worth > doing to a majority of people. :-P Perhaps that isn't a downside. If it isn't worth the work of doing it up right, perhaps it isn't worth saying. That's the fundamental flaw in the blogosphere: it is so easy now to put crud on the net that people do. The result is that Ted Sturgeon is wrong only about the specific ratio. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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