Re: "proportional"

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006, Dave L. Renfro wrote:

William Elliot wrote (in part):

Anyway, if quoting is fixed, then why is mathmaniaman
unable to ever include any context?

According to google's "Show original" format (URL below), it appears
that mathman is posting through The Math Forum. I use Math Forum for
some other groups (non-Usenet), and thus I happen to know that you need
to do something extra in order to get the original message quoted. [I
never bother, since I always prepare my posts on a desktop text editor

I frequently do the same for those that require thinking thoughtful
thoughts.

first. I do this because several times over the years I've lost all the
text of a well crafted post due to a power disruption, a problem with my
post not getting through for some reason (and not being able to return
to the text by using the "back" button), etc.]

I often find myself scratching my head when people post without context,
but maybe this is the (former) teacher in me who was always trying to
anticipate how someone could misunderstand me, or perhaps it's the
former student in me who was always concerned about the possibility of
losing points simply because I didn't make my answers and supporting
work sufficiently clear.

I don't let those fleas cause me to itch. If they don't include context,
then, instead of reconstructing the thread and making quality reply I wing
it with what I remember, which for math quickly become gibberish because
details often aren't remembered accurately. I do think mathman has
contribution to make to this group, but as he never includes context, I
skip over his replies instead of reviewing and perhaps adding comment.

http://groups.google.com/group/sci.math/msg/c0473c9202a9d017?dmode=source

Dave L. Renfro

Thanks David. Maybe mathman will come to understand why to quote.

http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#quote

Can you give him instructions how to quote from Mathforum?

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