Re: Snake lemma-Five lemma

Peter Webb wrote:
[Contextless posting]
> You seem to be the only person who complains about this.

He's probably the only person who still has the energy to complain
about it regularly. It annoys me, and I do complain about it on those
occasions where I was planning to reply anyway, but most of the time I
don't bother reading whatever tripe the poster rudely rushed out.


> Maybe you are the only person left on usenet who doesn't use a
> newsgroup reader which supports threads.

My newsgroup reader supports threads. However, when I have already
read the message to which the reply is posted, it requires a separate
server operation to find and download the parent post. Then
regardless of software or timing, I have to work out which parts of
the original post are relevant to the post in question.

If someone lacks the basic etiquette to provide even one line of
relevant context, is their message worth the bother? Almost all of
the time, no. People who have something worthwhile to say generally
put enough thought into their posts to communicate it more clearly
than that.

It is simple politeness to provide at least some minimal context for
what one has to say, when one is communicating to an audience of
thousands in a medium in which replies are typically read hours or
days after the previous message, and temporally mixed with hundreds of
unrelated posts.

There's already enough scope for confusion and miscommunication in
this medium, without lack of context adding a whole lot more.


- Tim
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