On 04/08/2005 12:04 PM, Rob Brown wrote:
On 04/08/2005 10:31 AM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
"Sloppy Google posters posting without any quoted material make for
infuriating ng reading as it is. But, have 2 or more Google posters
running on as if this is a chat room is off the scale."

I'm so sorry that I confused you. I'll go flog myself with birtch
branches and pray until a sign from the gods of the holy news group
tell me I'm forgiven.
Thanks for the usefull information to my original posting,

No birch flogging necessary! He/she is right, though. This is a public
forum, and it helps if the thread of conversation is succinct, but
complete. Even if "Fear of Opinions" (is the mere presence of such a
userID contrary to USENET?) didn't exactly give you any useful
information, the main complaint might be that your public thread did not
offer much more, simply because of the format.

For what it's worth, I was actually interested in the original post, but
was not able to follow the thread without difficulty.

Once could think of this in a different way: English speakers have many
ad hoc rules they adhere to when conversing with other English speakers.
There are many shared notions of communication that are outside of
official grammar that we stick to to maximize understanding. Written
communication is no different, except that specific situations like
USENET may require a closer set of specific ad hoc rulesets.

Things like bottom posting and obvious, succinct quoting just help
everything work better. Well, it helps in cases where the participants
are not spoiling for a fight.

TTYL.

-- jdv

"Standards are wonderful. Everyone should have them."