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[trinity-users] Re: Mailquotes

From: "Dr. Nikolaus Klepp" <ml-migration-agent@...>
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 20:44:13 +0200
Anno domini 2020 Wed, 16 Sep 11:10:00 -0700
 William Morder via trinity-users via tde-users scripsit:
> [...]
> > (Personally, I like to see a little personal banter and joking; it helps
> > one get to know the folks we're communicating with.  It does go a bit too
> > far sometimes, but for me it only becomes irritating when these two
> > problems are combined -- page after page after page of untrimmed,
> > now-irrelevant quotes many levels deep, scrolling, scrolling, scrolling,
> > just to find a line or two of something completely irrelevant at the
> > bottom.)
> 
> I can live with that. My problem is always, where to start revising or cutting 
> what others have said. 
> 
> And when the original topic (say, about installing Icecat) suddenly veers into 
> philosophy and politics and Big Brother, etc., this really ought to be turned 
> into a completely new, separate thread. It's interesting, sometimes, but the 
> original topic got lost in discussions of matters that were several steps 
> removed from where it started. 
> 
> So what would be our rule? except to create a new thread, early on, once we 
> realize where this train wreck is headed. 
> 

@ topposting: https://habr.com/ru/post/13714/
@ rules: rules are there to be broken. The more the world drifts to law & order, the more imporant that gets.

Nik


> Bill
> 
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