[Scottish] Re: News Letter April 08

[Willie Fleming]

I concur.

"It is as good to get rid of stuff as to cop a freebie" Nanook of North 
Kelvinside 1895
On Saturday 12 April 2008 16:37:56 Kyle Gordon wrote:
> tldr
>
> John Seago wrote:
> > On Friday 11 April 2008 12:15:07 Kyle Gordon <kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com>
> >
> > wrote:
> >> Top posting worked just fine in that context due to the reply not
> >> addressing any part of the post in particular.
> >
> > To criticise the volume of the original post, (as posted in the digest),
> > and then to include the original post in its entirety, seems somewhat
> > perverse, would you not agree? Perhaps the suggestion that "it might be
> > an idea to have a digest / list of contents at the  top of such
> > mail-outs", would have sufficed.
> >
> >> The part that you quote isn't even in the email that Andrew replied to,
> >> and is only present in the digest version that you subscribe to.
> >
> > Here is the material written by Andrew Back in the Email to the Scottish
> > list
> >
> >> I can only speak for myself here, but must say that whilst curious as to
> >> what you guys had organised, I started to lose the will to live as I
> >> paged down. So it might be an idea to have a digest / list of contents
> >> at the top of such mail-outs. So that folks can quickly see if there is
> >> anything that is of interest to them and then read on if so. The
> >> voluminous monolithic blocks of text approach I find a bit overbearing!
> >
> > I quoted only the last sentence of the paragraph, I cannot see any
> > difference between the post, (threaded), to the Scottish list, and the
> > post to the Digest of the Scottish list. Might it be that you are
> > referring to the subject line?
> >
> > The point remains that complaints that "voluminous monolithic blocks of
> > text" are found to be overbearing, and that they further cause a loss of
> > will to live, lose their impact when made above, "voluminous monolithic
> > blocks of text". Or could it be that Andrew Back, whilst intending to
> > edit the material he was replying to, forgot to do so? Mayhap he will
> > enlighten us. As to the differences between the threaded list and the
> > digest, one takes that that meets ones needs.
> >
> > Whilst the following apply more to usenet
> > http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
> > http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html
> > they might perhaps be considered as examples of 'good practice' as
> > editing quoted material does prevent successive posts getting longer and
> > longer when the entirety of each previous post is quoted, would you not
> > agree?
>
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Willie Fleming

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