[APD] Re:Re: posting etc

["Robert H" <robertph3 at comcast_net>]

> > I realize that this might rub some folks the wrong way, please direct any
> and all flames to damned-if-I-care.com.
While I agree with much of what you said (especially for what to call 
something since it has effects on how useful a search of the APD archives 
will be), the way you wrote your post is more of a flame than constructive 
criticism.  For that reason I think a lot of people here will be forwarding 
your message to the same address.

-Kyle<<

No offense Kyle, and not to take anything away from Tom, I have often not 
agreed with what James has said over the years, except this time. I think 
Tom's Factor will need some serious editing, and many people have always 
complained about how long or disjointed other peoples cut and paste 
statements that they are responding to or failing to delte anything from 
what they are responding to. It is extremely annoying, difficult to follow, 
and needlessly clutters the archives. People have complained, complained, 
and complained for as long as I can remember, and yet people still do it.  I 
can remember once when a whole digest from the previous day was repeated 
THREE times by the same person in one daily digest. It gets to be a little 
ridiculous.


> > Yes. It makes a diff also if the reader is getting things
in digest form or singly. In digetst form, threads aren't
to hard to trace. If you get the messages one at a time, it
often is helpful to have the prior post included.<<

Perhaps if you spend all your time reading every single post from every 
single digest every day, you can follow it. I don't.  I do not need to read 
the entire post that the response is based on, nor do I need to see the 
entire previous digest in someones response, just enough so I know the 
contex of the statement in a clearly written response that is not in some 
wierd shorthand, acronym or initials that I do not understand the meaning 
ofl.  I don't think Tom takes offense to this, I think his brain races 
faster than he can type! You make the big bucks Tom, six figures, hire 
someone to take dictation for you! :) <wink>

Robert Hudson

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