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Skriven 2007-04-24 09:44:49 av alexander koryagin
     Kommentar till en text av Ardith Hinton (1:153/716)
Ärende: Re: Mechanics...  2.
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From: "alexander koryagin" <koryagin@erec.ru>

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Hi, Ardith Hinton! How are you?
on Saturday, 21 of April, you wrote to Alexander Koryagin
about "Mechanics...  2."

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

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

It is a piece of cake. When your letter reaches me it has 22 kludge
lines. These ones:
Path: Newsgroups: Distribution: X-Comment-To: Approved: From: Date: Subject:
Message-ID: References: Organization:
X-FTN-FLAGS:  X-FTN-AREA: X-FTN-MSGID:  X-FTN-REPLY: X-FTN-CHRS:
X-FTN-Tearline: X-FTN-Origin:
X-FTN-SEEN-BY: X-FTN-PATH: Lines:  Xref:

My newsmailer has the special button (Headers) and I can see all of them if
I want, but the text editor area contains only a message text.

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.

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

But a presence the old machine does not stop from buying a new one. For
example (besides Fido) it is not bad to have an ability to listen to the mp3
music on your computer. And in this case you have to have a quite new, large
hard drive which hardly could be installed on the old motherboard. Besides
it is nice to have USB interface (desirably USB2). For instance, I am
carrying in my pocket an USB mobile hard drive, with capacity 120 gb. It is
worth it to buy a new computer. And when you buy it you find it easier to
have all the other information in one place; and finally you don't know what
you have to do with your old wheelbarrow. ;)
But you can have of course a special situation when your child is occupying
the new computer for his games and you have to spend your time in the garage
with your old MSDOS friend. ;=)

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

But in fact, it is as is in real life; the burning time of the fire with a
big flame is not longer than the time of the small fire. All the wood of big
fire burns very quickly. And all the spectators is moving away.

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.

AH>           This echo is about the right size for me!  A (now defunct)
AH> echo had, for awhile, quite a bit of traffic.  In a single day I saw
AH> ninety-five replies from the same individual.

Better, let it be a defunct one. ;)  Although it is difficult to flood the
echo with a clear subject and purpose.

AH> He'd already mentioned that he allowed himself just one hour of on-line
AH> time daily...

;-) A record for the Guinness book.

AK>>  the suspension mark without putting the full stop after
AK>>  it. From one side it is quite logical - the suspension

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

AH>           Many people in Fidonet also use a series of dots to indicate
AH> a pause
AH> ... just as I'm doing here.  In some cases, it's a holdover from the
AH> days when computers would drop the connection & lose what folks had
AH> written if they took too long to think without engaging the keyboard.
AH> In my case, I suppose it's a holdover from high school days.  I had an
AH> English teacher who didn't allow her students to use dashes.

I read a funny story about Winston Churhchill; he wrote an important speech
and gave it to the secretary to type. But the secretary was too smart, and
he knew that it is bad Englishman  to end the sentences with a preposition.
So he changed a lot of the sentences in that speech. But Churchill marked
them in red ink and said remarkable sentence:
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." ;)

AH> Another reason, especially at the end of a paragraph, is that I have
AH> more to say on the subject & I'd welcome further input....  :-)

Is it admit to use ellipsis when I want to increase the volume of the
place where events are taking place? I want you to see a certain romantic
tinge in the description.

=========Beginning of the citation==============
 The lights moved overhead, the lights  moved underneath. Everywhere....
=========The end of the citation================


Or in this case:
=========Beginning of the citation==============
the driver found  the home they searched, stopped by the wicket-gate, pulled
out the  luggage from the car and said:
    "Here we are. Good luck...."

=========The end of the citation================
In this passage I want  you to see that the events will have some pause. I
give you some sense of time. And then I continue:

=========Beginning of the citation==============
The owner of the house appeared to be an old man... etc
=========The end of the citation================

[...Nil de nihito fil]
Bye Ardith!
Alexander
fido7.english-tutor 2007



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