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Traveling with a camera
F Hansen wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: It's not a question of a limited test and policy statement but physical probability. eg: they tested n samples where there are millions more 'transactions' occurring. My position was not that it was common, but that your previous statement (oddly cropped out) above was not the whole truth. Cropping text when replying is considered netiquette in my parts, and the only reason I did so. That's "irrelevant text". -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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Alan Browne wrote:
... That's "irrelevant text". My advice would be to adjust your newsreader to 'view as thread' or something to that effect. In that way the posts themselves show up in chronologically and threaded in such a way that those of us with an adult attention span intuitively understand the context of each post. |
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F Hansen wrote:
Alan Browne wrote: .. That's "irrelevant text". My advice .... is not needed. -- -- r.p.e.35mm user resource: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpe35mmur.htm -- r.p.d.slr-systems: http://www.aliasimages.com/rpdslrsysur.htm -- [SI] gallery & rulz: http://www.pbase.com/shootin -- e-meil: Remove FreeLunch. -- usenet posts from gmail.com and googlemail.com are filtered out. |
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On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 14:47:39 +1100, "DRS"
wrote: "F Hansen" wrote in message Alan Browne wrote: [...] millions more 'transactions' occurring. My position was not that it was common, but that your previous statement (oddly cropped out) above was not the whole truth. Cropping text when replying is considered netiquette in my parts, and the only reason I did so. That is true and I for one wish more than a few people in here would do the same instead of mindlessly regurgitating ever accumulating quantities of increasingly irrelevant material. However, part of netiquette is to indicate that you have snipped, as I have done above. ....alot, contextually, can be lost or altered in a snip. Happens all the time in journalism when an editor gets hold of any given article, or, for that matter, the writer choosing facts (and placement thereof) according to his/her opinion. So, the indicating of a snip is a courtesy to the reader, and enables investigative backtracking... cg |
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Charlie Groh wrote:
... ...alot, contextually, can be lost or altered in a snip. Happens all the time in journalism when an editor gets hold of any given article, or, for that matter, the writer choosing facts (and placement thereof) according to his/her opinion. So, the indicating of a snip is a courtesy to the reader, and enables investigative backtracking... That is agreed upon, a snipmark should always be replacing a snip, like I always do. What is considered irrelevant enough to be snipped must be a matter of judgement for the writer. But this is just a matter of courtesy mainly in order to ease the reading. The thread itself will have to be the context one should revert to if in doubt. |
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On Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:23:30 +0100, F Hansen
wrote: Charlie Groh wrote: .. ...alot, contextually, can be lost or altered in a snip. Happens all the time in journalism when an editor gets hold of any given article, or, for that matter, the writer choosing facts (and placement thereof) according to his/her opinion. So, the indicating of a snip is a courtesy to the reader, and enables investigative backtracking... That is agreed upon, a snipmark should always be replacing a snip, like I always do. What is considered irrelevant enough to be snipped must be a matter of judgement for the writer. But this is just a matter of courtesy mainly in order to ease the reading. The thread itself will have to be the context one should revert to if in doubt. ....sometimes I will snip just to relieve the thread participants (and myself) of undue scrolling. *Then* a knowing late-comer will be able to catch up, if you will. Relevance is a tough call, eh? cg |
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"Charlie Groh" wrote in message
[...] ...sometimes I will snip just to relieve the thread participants (and myself) of undue scrolling. *Then* a knowing late-comer will be able to catch up, if you will. Relevance is a tough call, eh? My rule of thumb is citing no more than the two immediately preceding posts, and then only what I consider relevant. The two level "rule" seems a good balance between providing sufficient context without over-quoting. |
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