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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 7 Dec 2001.
Re: jmov fishtank

Re: jmov fishtank

CeeJay wrote:
> 
> > > > >>Come on, do you have to smash every single piece of work? Show us some of
> > > > >>your art!
> > >
> > > > >he doesn't appear to have any
> > >
> > > > And I suppose you do?
> > >
> > > He does actually.  .. and a LOT of it.
> >
> > Who?
> 
> MJP
> 
> Pay attention to the thread. Surely your newsserver doesn't drop that many
> messages.

* The server I normally use used to keep messages for two days
  (at the moment it doesn't seem to keep them at all, but that's
  a different story). Many threads are longer than that.

* One shouldn't have to "pay attention to the thread". One should
  be able to delete read messages without having to worry about
  back-tracking to figure out who wrote what.

* People sort the messages in different ways (and not everybody
  uses "threading").

* Killfiling...

* Crossposting...

All these things (and probably a few others as well) affect how well one
can "pay attention to the thread". Just because *you* happen to see a
"thread" there doesn't mean everybody else will, or that it will look
the same as it does in your news reader.

Snipping the attributions is rude. Please don't do it.


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