Re: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...

On Mon, 19 May 2008 19:33:41 +0000 (UTC), sethb@xxxxxxxxx (Seth)
wrote:

David V. Loewe, Jr <daveloewe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 17 May 2008 23:09:16 +0000 (UTC), sethb@xxxxxxxxx (Seth)
wrote:
David V. Loewe, Jr <daveloewe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3 May 2008 15:05:53 -0400, "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Quoting _only_ the relevant stuff is the point of quoting.

Lynch and I differ radically as to what is relevant.

Apparently, it's you and (almost?) everybody else on the two sides.

THAT depends on the news group.

I'll also note again that YOU aren't doing the same sort of snipping
that I see from Lynch. Your editing in the last two posts resembles
mine far more than it does Lynch's. So, I'm puzzled as to what your
point is supposed to be.

What planet are you from again?
The planet of understanding language.
I didn't ask YOU that question, so I'll have to take your answer with
a grain of salt.

When you post publicly, you invite responses from all who read it.

True and fine, but, when I ask Lynch what planet he's from, your
answer isn't very relevant - especially when you don't display the
same behavior as he does.

It gets in my way, no matter how distracting it is or isn't. Why do
you think it's so much easier to "go back and get context" than to hit
"["?

Because it is.

Some people can hit a single character on their keyboards quite
easily.

The relevant key is "Backspace" for Agent.

Others need a point-and-drool interface.

You are assuming things not in evidence.

Moreover, it is still easier to just look at the screen and read the
words.

No, it isn't. (And not having to skip past excessive quoting is
easier than skipping past it.)

Just because Lynch's news reader is set up A particular way, let me
ask you this - does your news reader make a CLEAR distinction between
quoted material and new? Agent, my news reader, has the quoted
material in a different color than new. That makes extremely easy to
figure out.

It's very easy to for me to skip past quoted text and much more
difficult and distracting to have to flip back forth via "Backspace"
(to look back) and "D" (to move forward to the post I'm nominally
reading). And they don't work from a composition window.

I've never seen an instance of what you describe where I can't figure
out what is quoted text and what isn't.

But I've seen plenty where I can't figure out who wrote what, without
going back to earlier messages.

Probably because people are snipping the attribution lines, but I
digress...

No, because they break quoting and filling so stuff has random numbers
of ">" on the left, and in the middle of lines as well.

Huh?

Even if I were willing to read all of it yet again, how am I supposed
to know which part of which messages the sender is responding to?

That is why everyone usually responds immediately after the paragraph
or smaller unit of text that they are referring to.

So why quote the rest of it? It just gets in my way.

For CONTEXT.

The context that people aren't supposed to read?

Why would there BE context that people aren't supposed to read? That
makes no sense.
--
"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four.
Unless there are three other people."
- Orson Welles
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