-=PCTechTalk=- Re: pctechtalk readability hurt by sloppy (or rude?) habits!
- From: "recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx" <recklessmaverick@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:10:12 -0400
I personally regret the day that "digest mode" was invented. In the
"good ole days" you could put a -- at the end of your message and then
every time your message was replied to everything below it was
automatically deleted. The -- was typically placed to force replies to
be edited to keep pertinent older material in the reply. Failure to end
your message with a -- and to place tag lines and other material below
it was considered rude behaviour. I have not seen that feature in any
software since I started seeing "digest mode" become available.
I spent years and years in the "good ole days" not worrying about
trimming and pruning because the -- did the work for me. Old habits are
hard to break. I am better now than I was a year ago. I will be better
yet in another year.
"Post at top" has become the standard now a days and this compounds the
problem. If forwards and replies would force "post at bottom" (so
writer would have to see the mess and hopefully delete it) or at least
force the -- feature (or both) this problem would almost disappear.
Now to be fair, there is a lot of abuse by digesters also (not
necessarily in this group). They frequently reply and leave the entire
digest message in the reply. Since "post at top" is common and some
don't edit out non-pertinent material or change the subject line
everybody, including other digesters, end up with a big mess to try to
sort out.
This problem is a result of bad behaviour on the part of both humans and
software. It will take changes to both to reduce the problem.
Don
DO1212SK wrote:
> I would like to remind posters to this forum to please use good PC practice
> and CLIP AND TRIM their returning messages. Some of the recent postings here
> (see something called "Musical Startup"?) have made my PCTTK digest most
> unmanagable and extremely difficult to read because of the huge collections
> of previous outdated messages that were constantly returned!
> Hey folks, it's just a simple matter to edit your return posts, and IMO it's
> either ignorant or very rude and uncaring not to do so! I consider this
> forum to be one of the most valuable services existing on the web that's
> freely and generously offered to us amatuer computer nerds, and making it
> difficult to access by not editing your returning stuff is a great
> disservice to others here!
> So please folks, a little judicious editing; -some ~PRUNING~ of your
> previous requests and comments before reposting would be greatly appreciated
> by all of us!
> Greywoulf
>
>
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