Chris, It's not very clear what you are suggesting here but you seem to be agreeing with me...
Edgar On Nov 25, 2012, at 7:25 PM, ChrisAustinLane wrote: > No remembering the context or having a mail reader sufficiently smart to pull > up whatever context is needing is insulting to the group whose time you are > spending my writing a post, old school wise. > > Thanks, > Chris Austin-Lane > Sent from a cell phone > > On Nov 25, 2012, at 15:43, Edgar Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> Chris, >> >> That etiquette applies to snipping posts down the thread aways. 3 or 4 >> previous posts down depending on context. Snipping the immediately preceding >> post you are replying to including the poster's name is discourteous and >> insulting to that poster and also destroys the context of the reply tending >> to make it less meaningful or relevant.. >> >> Edgar >> as moderator >> >> >> >> On Nov 25, 2012, at 5:35 PM, ChrisAustinLane wrote: >> >>> >>> I personally find the endlessly growing requoted and unsnipped emails to be >>> a breach of nettiquette. Top posting and quoting the entire thread is >>> traditionally frowned on in text only fora, and was not normal until about >>> ten years ago when MS Outlook became so common. >>> >>> On my phone the bandwidth is not neglegible and there is an additional cost >>> of scrolling time to skip all the quoted stuff. >>> >>> I'd buy the argument about context if people actually read carefully enough >>> for that to matter but there is so much talking past one another that the >>> context doesn't matter. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Chris Austin-Lane >>> Sent from a cell phone >>> >>> On Nov 25, 2012, at 4:52, Edgar Owen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Joe, >>>> >>>> It destroys context when you snip off parts of the post you are replying >>>> to. >>>> >>>> And it's impolite as well. >>>> >>>> Additionally the bandwidth saved from a few lines of TEXT is totally >>>> insignificant. >>>> >>>> I tell you this a co-moderator. >>>> >>>> Edgar >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Nov 24, 2012, at 8:03 PM, Joe wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Edgar, >>>>> >>>>> How fallibly un-perspicacious of you! >>>>> >>>>> I *always* do that, and always have done. >>>>> >>>>> Saves bandwidth, which is a commodity. >>>>> >>>>> --Joe >>>>> >>>>>> Edgar Owen <edgarowen@...> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Ouch! I thought we were being nice to each other? >>>>>> >>>>>> And btw what's this sudden snipping compulsion you have to snip off the >>>>>> bottom of the posts you are responding to? >>>>> [snip] >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
