matt@mailinator.com wrote :[color=blue]
> i do appreciate your help, truly.
>
> but alienate myself? you dont understand... this is not a neighborhood.
> this is not a club. this is not my bowling team.
>[/color]
A good working convention on Usenet is to quote enough of what you are
responding to so that some context is available. When it's done, anyone
searching through archives can then figure out what was talked. On top
of that, the person to whom you are replying to knows immediately and
easily to what exactly (chunck by chunck) you are replying to.
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/ http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#quote
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> rather, technical usenet groups such as this are a collection of
> millions of pieces of useful information. and not even useful in
> regards to me.. but in regards to whomever does the same google groups
> search i did prior to posting[/color]
You obviously did not search for MSIE 6 bugs. Obviously.
-- they will find their keywords, read[color=blue]
> their solution, and move on.
>
> the information is all that matters.
>
> being intelligble is a plus. being friendly is a plus. but worrying
> about usenet harddrive space consumption[/color]
Are you actually claiming that one of my posts referred to harddrive
space consumption??
& reprimanding others (even if[color=blue]
> in a friendly tone)? come off it! that school of thought is a *dying
> breed*. it was borne for good reasons, but those reasons are past.[/color]
In life, manners often make a difference. Furthermore if we are in a
communication medium like the web. Being able to understand (or to read)
the expectations of visitors of a webpage (or readers of posts in a
newsgroup) makes a major difference. That's why we have newsgroup FAQ
and tutorials/books/websites about proper webpage design.
You need such ingredients (friendliness, tolerance is what ends up into
website/webpage usability, accessibility, etc.) when actually building a
website. "Do as you wish", "anything goes", "the sky is the limit" and
"put up or shut up", "gimme or get out of the way" attitudes go nowhere,
on the web as well as in Usenet.
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>
> so yes -- to me, and other knowledge workers like me, technical usenet
> posts are like a microwave oven.[/color]
Wow! Quite an admission. I really regret ever answering you. I thought
you were more than a spoon-feed-me-your-answers type of guy...
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> in & out, as quickly as possible.[/color]
Some people eventually call this road rage too, you know: it's an
hypertrophiated "gimme and get out of my way" attitude.
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> dunno about you but i get paid by the hour, i have to work fast. thus,
> im going to post to several groups to get an answer.. (tho i will try a
> cross-post if google makes it easy to do so).
>
> but, if i were looking an in-depth discussion regarding some topic of
> import--can any of us truly claim that CSS is an important
> topic??[/color]
Maybe it is an important for those who posts messages in newsgroup
asking for free assistance, promptly delivered in a professional manner.
Like the ones who asked about element height in newsgroups.
--then i would totally side w/ you, and worry about maintaining[color=blue]
> a civil, balanced thread and community.
>
> this will all be forgotten and one day deleted.
>
> hope my drift gets across. but at this point, thats only a plus.
>
>
> matt[/color]
It certainly got across my killfile. It's a plus in my killfile.
Gérard
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