Fish wrote:
Mark A. Stevens babbled:
Yes, sir. Thank you!
Who are you talking to? Some context would be nice!
Sorry for babbling. Just trying to be polite, like my
Mom taught me. ;-)
While I certainly do appreciate that, in a public forum, given that there are many different conversations (thread) going on, it's considered common courtesy to supply some type of context to one's reply so that others can know who's post you are replying to and what they said that you are replying about.
I'm guessing you are replying via the groups.io web interface. If true, after clicking the reply link. you need to click the "Conversation Balloon" icon at the far left of the list of toolbar icons that are displayed at the top of your reply text box (immediately to the left of the "Formats" dropdown). That will insert a copy of the post that you are replying to, so others can know to whom and to what you are replying. This "quoting" of the other person's post is called "context" and helps others to follow the various conversations that are going on in the forum.
After the other person's post is inserted into your reply, you should also manually delete the portions of their post that do not pertain to what you are replying about. That is to say, if their post was quite long because they mentioned many different things in their post and you are responding to just one specific thing they said, then you should delete all the other stuff they said that doesn't pertain to what your reply pertains to. This is called "trimming your post". No one wants to see the entire very long post that someone already made if all you are replying to is one small part of it.
All of this WAS, years ago, common sense, before "texting" came along and ruined things.
<me: steps down from soapbox and quietly walks away>
(p.s. I'm not mad! Not at you other anyone else! I'm just, well, disappointed at the continuing loss in the quality of conversation in news groups (support forums) these days. :(
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"Fish" (David B. Trout)
Software Development Laboratories
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