19 Mar
2018
19 Mar
'18
2:29 p.m.
On Monday 19 March 2018 06:32:52 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 06:09:24AM -0700, William
Morder wrote:
That's true, but then I usually try to cut out the extraneous stuff. My own
posts can get long-winded, but I expect to be edited down to human size by
others. I think it's fine to comment after the other person's points,
one-at-a-time. It keeps the flow of thought together.
In other words, me too.
That particular response would have made more sense at the end; I wasn't
pointing it out to be a jerk. I only care for reasons of comprehension; and
that particular person had some useful information to offer. Otherwise, I
politely ignore people who don't follow the rules; I myself don't make the
rules here, and usually can be found on the other side of that line.
Of late we have been going totally off-topic a lot, for which I must admit mea
maxima culpa.
Bill
By the way, the TDE mailing list mods ask that we
don't top-post.
I don't think they mean to bottom-post at the end of two or three pages
of quoted text.
I think they mean to interleave your responses immediately after the
relevant quoted text, trimming anything irrelevant.
Top-posting is often annoying, but I can tell you it's not as annoying
as having to scroll down past thirty pages of quoting up to a dozen
levels deep:
> > > > > > > > > >
> blah blah blah blah...
to finally see the one and only line of new content:
"Me too!!!"