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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