Re: Brevity is the essence of wit..

[brownfld@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Kenneth R Brownfield)]

bullroar@darkside.COM (Mark Kraft) writes:

>I'm quite sure that we all like lots of muscians, and that is quite an 
>admirable quality to have..  But, might I enquire, can't all of this be a 
>bit more moderated? It is very annoying to be seeing double posts running 
>rampant, only to be quoted fully again and again when they are debated 
>endlessly later.. Could we at least agree to urge the weeding out of these 
>offending double-posts and make references to previous posts without quoting 
>the post verbatim ad nausea? This is really a magazine, of sorts, and as 
>such, we should issue a certain discretion to make sure that what we write 
>isn't too redundant. Keep Happy, Kate, Caterwaul, LPD (by all means), and 
>hell, seeing others like them, even T'pau. Just keep it informative, to the 
>point, and entertaining. We shouldn't try to be excessively American in our 
>hit & run viewpoint of entertainment, but it would be nice to see more 
>information and a tad less bickerring. 

     Moderation is a Bad Thing, IMO.  The joy of this group (and something
that needs to grow) is the ability to express _any_ opinion.  Double posts
are not worth it for Bill to go through _every single post_ and verify it's
originality.  As for referencing other posts, it's a required part of netnews,
to be able to follow an article and it's responses over a period of several
days.  At least it's required for me.  Context is a good thing.
     Argumentation is a lot different than bickering.  You might even learn
something.  :-)
     American?  Huh?

>Bullroar@darkside.com ... now go and sin no more... :)
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