Re: ASCII Stuff

Veronica Karlsson wrote:
>
> In the news readers I'm familiar with you get the next message by
> "scrolling past the end" of the current message.

With the one I'm familiar with you just have to click a button.

>
> I think we must be talking past each other somehow. Please, show some
> examples of "answering the whole article" (i.e. links to posts at
> Google or some similar service).

Well as a good example there are pictures in this group that I just want
to reply to say I like them and congratulate the author. Should I cut
the picture to quote the "parts" I like about it? What if I like the
picture as a whole?
I now think that I won't quote it at all...
But then if the picture is not on the reader's server for some reason my
article is meaningless.

>
> Who says such "evolution" has to be in the direction of "more
> intelligent"? All it says is that things change as time passes.

Ok I'm not a specialist, but I think things tend to be more
and more "structured", and "organized", not the other way. If not, we
would not be here to talk about it.

> > But for instance I'm sure you can find a newsreader that will "hide"
> > any quoted text if it is at the bottom of an article.
> > I can imagine you can even configure some to reformat articles and
> > to put bottom quoted text to the top of the article :)
>
> And that would be "intelligent"? **brrr**  (that sort of features tend
> to make a mess of ascii art)

Well an "intelligent" enough newsreader could optimize the reading
of the articles, for example by coloring quotings depths, or removing
unimportant parts, thus improving the "human eye bandwidth" you were
referring to.

>
> > Me I use Outlook Express with OEQuoteFix, it has an option to hide
> > sigs.
>
> THAT can be intelligent (IF the sender has a correctly formed sig
> separator and if you are not interested in seeing sigs, sig collectors
> like me might not be as interested...)

Of course such features need to be easily desactivable :)

> > > > bandwidth is less and less a problem, ...)
> > >
> > > Computer bandwidth maybe, but not "human bandwidth". Our eyes and
> > > brains and fingers still work the same way they did thousands of
> > > years ago.
> >
> > Not sure :) Humans do evolve!
>
> Yes, but not very quickly. A few thousand years don't make that much
> difference.

Except it may also be a question of culture, and culture evolves a
lot in a thousand years.


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