Re: Postings to sci.geo.satellite-nav

On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:47:59 +0200, Harald Hanche-Olsen
<hanche@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+ Nicholas <Nicholas@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

So, if I get this right, you yourself REPOST the entire message,
whilst criticizing us for doing the same. As for costing anybody
anything, I've paid my monthly fee for using this service.

Surely, this was meant to be a joke.

As a joke it fell sorta flat, I agree. But he has a point. I am not sure
the cost-of-transmission argument is as sound as it used to be in the
childhood years of usenet (long before the Internet), when phone lines
were the most common transmission medium. But it is annoying when you
have to scroll through piles of text that you most likely read (or
scrolled over) mere seconds ago to get to the new contribution. It
wastes time and, more importantly, it breaks the flow of the
conversation - to the extent that there is a flow to break in the first
place. (And don't get me started on top posting.)

And by the same token, I've been chastised over and over again for
snipping for brevity.

IOW, I removed what -I- thought wasn't germane to the discussion, only
to be criticized for avoiding answering what somebody else thought was
important.

So here is the way I look at it. If I am going to make a 1 sentence
reply, I don't need to quote the tome that led to it. But at the same
time, some people will disagree no matter whether I snip for brevity
or toss the entire thread into a single post.

I can tell you that no matter which choice you make, someone is not
going to be pleased with it. So where do you go from there?

The argument if you snip is that some people don't want to go up 20
posts to find out what someone else said.

The argument to not snip is it wastes bandwidth or clutters the
message.

No matter which choice you make, you lose. Sort of like the up-coming
elections in the US.

Nick

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