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On 16-Mar-2012 12:16 , Michael Ryan wrote:
These threads are about the hardest to read. I'm out on this thread.
That reminds me of a friend who told me about a phone call they had
received. The caller asked if the person who answered the phone was
selling the such-and-such car advertised in the newspaper at the called
number, to which my friend responded "Yes", and then the caller said
"Hmmm... Well... I am not interested." and they hung up. Makes many
people wonder... Why did they even call? Hopefully that is understood
as a parable for the above quoted message.
Curiosity though... So are "these threads" so difficult "to read"
because they do not follow the conventional indenting\quoting, or
because they are so blatantly or at least veering off-topic?
For the latter... Might just as well have asked... "What does any of
this have to do with RPG?" Seems a lot of topics on this list have very
tenuous ties to RPG, if any. To avoid possibly offending the easily
offended, I do not always preface my replies with the "Not sure what
this has to do with RPG, but..."
For the former, I do find the conventional /text quoting/ that had
long been established on NNTP and carried into and supported by many
email clients to be preferable [auto indent and colorizing] to what I
infer is mimicking the typical /web commenting style/ of replies being
used by Stephen; though keeping the attribution of the quoted text is
appreciated.
Or perhaps something entirely different is origin for what was
expressed in the quoted text? In that case, perhaps articulating just
what is so bothersome or difficult, would help others to change to make
the threads be less so.?
Regards, Chuck
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