Trial by newspaper

Ross Richardson wrote:
When Andrew's post came across at 9:49 it was one line only with no
attached threads.

That's interesting. Andrew's post is timestamped 10:49 on my machine (EDST). The
post to which he replied is stamped 9:52. W-2000, Mozilla.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

Jay Honeck wrote:

I'm the same way with cut-and-paste operations. I *know* that "CTRL-C"
works just as well as "ALT-E-C", and takes one less keystroke, too -- but I
still use the old Lotus 1-2-3 "ALT-E-C" as often as not...

And I go to the Edit menu 'cause I'm not comfortable using ctrl-C. That's the
kill signal for a Unix system, and I coded on those for too many years.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

"Chris Colohan" wrote

In any case, on usenet it is often considered polite to quote from
previous messages to give some context. The main reason for this has
nothing to do with the fact that some of us use non-threaded
newsreaders---instead, it is because it takes time for messages to be
sent between computers. Depending on where you are reading from, the
messages in a newsgroup may arrive in a different order. Without a
little quote to put a message in context, this can cause confusion.

I totally agree, about quoting some of the text, and when it makes sense,
the author- as I did in this reply. It really is not hard.

The only reason I do not sometimes quote the most recent author to which I
am replying, is when I want to quote two authors, or two posts back, then I
leave out both of the authors. I think it reduces the chances that someone
will think that you are attributing someone else's words to them.

In my case, (with OE) it is unsure for me to determine who someone is
responding to, because I keep a hefty kill-file. I just do not want to
waste my time reading some nutcases.

In that case, the kill-filed person does not show up in the thread headers
at all, and it almost looks like it is a response to someone earlier in the
thread.

So for many reason, it stands that it is polite to quote some of the person
that you are responding to. It is just as bad to quote all of the post,
along with several other's posts before that.
--
Jim in NC

"John Clonts" wrote

Do you know about "read next unread"? Control-U and/or add the "Next
Unread" button to your button bar...

That is exactly how I bring order to the groups.
--
Jim in NC

Who's on first?

("Morgans" wrtoe)
Who's on first?


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"Charles Oppermann" writes:


In the Burbank overrun, the NTSB discovered that it was SWA policy not to
use the 737 Autobrakes, seemingly because of differences between different
737 models. Media reports today indicate that Autobrakes were set at
Maximum, apparently in contradiction of company policy. I don't know what
SWA policy was at the time of the crash however; maybe it changed after the
Burbank accident.


If what I read today was correct, "Autobrakes" is NOT antiskid/antilock.
Rather, it's "...when the squat switch says we're down, clamp 'em up NOW"
vice pilot-actuated braking.

And the SWA policy is to first use reverse-thrust. Why? Brake cooling
times and short turn-arounds. SWA is all about never ever letting
the aircraft sit still.
--
A host is a host from coast to
& no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX
Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433
is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

Morgans wrote:

In that case, the kill-filed person does not show up in the thread headers
at all, and it almost looks like it is a response to someone earlier in the
thread.

Mozilla has the option of having the system mark the kill-filed posts as "read"
instead of deleting them. That way the headers will show up in the thread, but
the "next" button skips right past them. OE may have something similar.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 03:39:35 GMT, George Patterson
wrote in Xz5of.61655$7r6.26832@trnddc07::

I'm not comfortable using ctrl-C. That's the kill signal for a Unix system

Actually, the UNIX stty command will permit setting the kill signal
(and the others) to any key (ASCII code) you desire, but the DEL
key/code was the quit command as distributed on all the UNIX systems I
used: SCO, AT&T, ... Control-C was, and still is, the quit signal for
PC-DOS/MS-DOS.

Morgans wrote:

In my case, (with OE) it is unsure for me to determine who someone is
responding to, because I keep a hefty kill-file. I just do not want to
waste my time reading some nutcases.

What time? All the posts are listed in pretty much a chronological
order and you can clearly see who wrote them. If you don't want to read
posts from a certain person then don't click on that post. The fact
that you have a killfile with my name on it means I won.