Text 1787, 97 rader
Skriven 2007-04-21 22:12:08 av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716.0)
   Kommentar till text 1749 av Alexander Koryagin (SashaKo)
Ärende: Mechanics...  2.
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Hi, Alexander!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

AK>  But it seems to that a client pointer program has to
AK>  automatically hide the technical information from the
AK>  letter's headers.


          I don't know if there are any rules about that, apart from what your
boss node and/or your software does.  I have seen messages from points quoting
PATH lines, though, while BBS users apparently don't see them.  Because I read
echomail directly from our BBS, I can see all the kludge lines.  I toggle them
on & off sometimes... but as a co-moderator I do need to be able to read them,
and I see there are eight kludge lines at the beginning of your message.  :-))



AK>  You are buying software programs at full price, so of
AK>  course, if they work well, you will not spend money to
AK>  buy new software.


          That may be one factor.  Another is that an old DOS machine will run
for months with no problems whatsoever, where Windoze (deliberate misspelling)
causes all sorts of grief.  If the old machine is reliable & still does a good
job with processing Fidonet mail... hey, I'd leave well enough alone too.  :-)



AK>  A Russian philosopher (me for example) prefer to say
AK>  that Bill Gates owes him a million dollars as a moral
AK>  compensation for his shattered nerves and health


          I can relate... [wry grin].



AK>  If we compare the live in an small echo with a campfire,
AK>  we can say that every letter is as a small twig for it.


          Ah... but the twigs are like kindling.  If you want the fire to keep
burning for a long time, you may need some bigger pieces as well... [chuckle].



AK>  It depends on the size of the echo traffic. If it is a
AK>  small one, and in general you have nothing else to read,
AK>  then, of course, you have time to dive into the reading
AK>  of long messages.


          This echo is about the right size for me!  A (now defunct) echo had,
for awhile, quite a bit of traffic.  In a single day I saw ninety-five replies
from the same individual.  He'd already mentioned that he allowed himself just
one hour of on-line time daily... so he whipped through three hundred messages
& responded to almost a third of them within an hour?  While this was a record
for him it was fairly typical of his writing.  I can't believe he put a lot of
thought into what he said & I didn't pay a lot of attention to it either.  ;-)



AK>  The shorter the more comprehensible. It is like a source
AK>  text of a program. The compiler surely can compile the
AK>  text of any size, but....


          Yes.  I understand it's more work to write source code without a lot
of unnecessary verbiage, though, and the same applies to other writings.  :-))



AK>  I heard that it is admitable (or rather optional) to put
AK>  the suspension mark without putting the full stop after
AK>  it. From one side it is quite logical - the suspention
AK>  mark tells us that a sentence is not finished. So if it
AK>  is not finished why we put the full stop after the
AK>  suspention mark?


          Traditionally the ellipsis [...] is used in a quoted passage to show
that something has been omitted.  But if something has been omitted at the end
of a sentence, the sentence needs end punctuation in addition to the ellipsis.

          Many people in Fidonet also use a series of dots to indicate a pause
... just as I'm doing here.  In some cases, it's a holdover from the days when
computers would drop the connection & lose what folks had written if they took
too long to think without engaging the keyboard.  In my case, I suppose it's a
holdover from high school days.  I had an English teacher who didn't allow her
students to use dashes.  Another reason, especially at the end of a paragraph,
is that I have more to say on the subject & I'd welcome further input....  :-)




--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+
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