Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Re: [epilepsy] may i suggest an idea about "trimming posts" ?

 

Thanks! I'm totally impressed with myself now- my posts are epileptogenic!

-Jason

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Douglas Norman <gentlegiant333@yahoo.ca>wrote:

> I am sorry for responding to this post. If I had noted it had come from
> Jason I would not have taken it so seriously.
> Douglas
>
> From: Douglas Norman <gentlegiant333@yahoo.ca>
> Received: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 4:17 PM
>

I thank you for making a judgement on my reality as I experience it. You
> make my reality sound like an epileptic siezure. Nobody understands it but
> me.
> Douglas
>
> --- On Wed, 9/30/09, Jason <tiscione@gmail. com> wrote:
> Received: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 11:09 AM
>
> > On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:24 PM, Douglas Norman <gentlegiant333@
> yahoo.ca>wrote:
>
> > In trimming the posts of "irrelevant" content who gets to decide what is
> > relevant and what is not? And by who's definition of relevance is
> relevance
> > defined?
> > Douglas
>
> Oh come now, this isn't political oppression here. Your questions are easy
> to answer:
>
> 1. Whoever writes the post
> 2. Whoever reads it
>
> Just remember when you decide, that the parts that you don't cut and didn't
> add, we've all seen before. And when you have to scroll down past several
> screens of machine-generated crud just to figure out what the next person
> said, the conversation is difficult to follow. At the very least you should
> delete the boilerplate added by computers.
>
> Anything below my signature (or the signature of the person I'm directly
> responding to) I usually delete, unless I need something someone said
> earlier for context. In that case I transplant what they said to near the
> top (or in the middle if more appropriate) , and I can delete all the
> repetitive boilerplate that got appened by mail servers and from yahoo
> interspersed with previously read messages like one line "me toos".
>
> -Jason
>
>

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