Snake lemma-Five lemma

On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Timothy Little wrote:

> 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.
>
What energy? No context, top post prepared message file, send.

> > 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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