From: Adam Prescott <adam@...>
Date: 2011-10-06T23:34:02+09:00
Subject: Re: How to output an instance's type

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On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Viaduct Productions <
lists@viaduct-productions.com> wrote:

> So this is how you think responses should be?  Because you want to re-read
> what you just submitted to the list?  I'm using whatever the list wants.


The simple answer to finding out what the list wants: lurk.

If you want my preference: trim quotes and bottom-/inline-post. Consider the
situation where someone makes 3 complex points. Compare the extra effort to
all future readers to piece together what's being responded to, compared to
a one-off cost of making it clear what is being responded to.

It's not about making people re-read quoted text. The quoted text is a
marker. Anyone who already read it gets their memory jogged and can refer
back to it easily (if necessary, compared to navigating back through N
previous replies). Anyone who hasn't read it gets to see what's being
discussed.

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