Interesting suggestions about quoting and posting

marc gmane at auxbuss.com
Thu May 7 08:14:46 UTC 2009


Lorenzo Taylor said:

> Usually I choose not to quote whenever possible, but instead make my
> answer clear enough that the question is very easily deducible from the
> reply, usually by paraphrasing or restating the question in the reply,
> kinda the same way I have been doing in my Esperanto correspondence
> courses.

But this is a different form of communication. Heck, when speaking 
Spanish (at least in Spain), context is presumed way beyond English; one 
work is often sufficient where I'd use ten in English!

The problem with reformatting the thread is that you lose context and the 
attribution of content. Unless you are making a specific point on an 
isolated part of the text, then this is a "bad thing", imo.

-- 
Best,
Marc





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