>> John Boy,
>>
>> Do we really have to plow through FIVE SCREENS of quoted and requoted hash?
>> Do we really need the _whole_ thread replayed each time? Just to get to some
>> little snippet added on to the end from you? Do you not know how to block
>> and delete?
>>
>> Steve C.
>>
>I really must take offense at your tone Steve, quite reminiscent
>of St. Pauli in one of his moods. But you do have a point, I was
>being somewhat lazy. While on the subject, I feel there is a
>tendency on the list to delete too much of other's messages.
>Let's face it, these are all text files, they download rapidly
>and if you want to, you can simply page down to the bottom to
>get the message. I don't like it when comments are continuously
>inserted in the body of a message. If you can't read the other's
>message and then formulate a reply in toto, how can one hope to
>divine N's philosophy. To insert in the body of another's
>message is to follow Goethe's view of a critic who dissects
>the living whole into lifeless bits and pieces with dead logic,
>the opposite of creative philosophy. Perhaps one is not up to N's
>standards but one can at least make one's best effort.
>
>John T. Duryea
I'll be careful in future, John, to not excerpt, interrupt, or otherwise
introduce division into missives that so clearly deserve to remain untouched
and unsullied by merely human hands or brains.
Best,
Steve C.
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