I don't disagree with your request Patrick, but what I find more time consuming is looking at posts with titles that give no clear idea of what the topic is about. I would have preferred: A Modest Proposal for Formatting Replies.
Michael - back from Oaxaca and into Mud Season. On Saturday, April 18, 2015 at 8:55:02 AM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: > > For a while now thread responders have been diligently trimming their > replies so that the entire thread doesn't hang like a continually evermore > indented tail at the end of the latest reply. I've come across messages on, > for example, CR, where you have the equivalent of a book to scroll through > before you get to attached photos or a signature. However, we often tend to > cut off all of the earlier thread, leaving replies without context. > > As someone who often comes late to a thread and finds his retrograde > interest stymied by such enigmatic, unplaced comments, may I suggest that > while we continue to trim, we leave in enough of the former message to give > context to ours? > > Thanks, Patrick Moore, who doubtless does this too but who will try not to > do so in the future. > > -- > Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. > By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. > Other professional writing services. > http://www.resumespecialties.com/ > www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ > Patrick Moore > Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > > ************************************* > *The point which is the pivot of the norm is the motionless center of a > circumference on the rim of which all conditions, distinctions, and > individualities revolve. *Chuang Tzu > > *Kinei hos eromenon. It moves as the being-loved. *Aristotle > > *The Love that moves the Sun and all the other stars. *Dante > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
