Re: https://github.com/bartg/langs/tree/master/bccproj

From	Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: https://github.com/bartg/langs/tree/master/bccproj
Date	2017-05-27 11:42 -0700
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
> On Wednesday, May 24, 2017 at 10:12:10 AM UTC-5, Tim Rentsch wrote:
[...]
>> Apparently one thing you're not seeing is the many times
>> you have been asked not to oversnip quoted material.
>
> How many messages appear on this thread between the message I was relying
> to and my response?  I know that different servers may have different
> message orderings, but when the thread has a total of two messages from
> that day I would find it surprising if they didn't appear consecutively
> on just about every server.

Depending on the newsreader, jumping from the current message to its
parent is likely to be inconvenient, and might not be possible.
Messages can arrive out of order (that might not be as much of an issue
as it used to be).

In the newsreader I use, for example, there's a simple command to jump
to the parent message, but getting back to the message I came from can
be awkward.

If you want to refer to something in a previous message, you should make
it convenient for your readers to see the context.  If you don't, a lot
of people just won't bother.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
    -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister"

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Re: https://github.com/bartg/langs/tree/master/bccproj Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-24 08:12 -0700
  Re: https://github.com/bartg/langs/tree/master/bccproj supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-05-24 09:10 -0700
    Re: https://github.com/bartg/langs/tree/master/bccproj Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2017-05-25 07:22 +1200
    Re: https://github.com/bartg/langs/tree/master/bccproj Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-27 06:03 -0700
    Re: https://github.com/bartg/langs/tree/master/bccproj Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-27 11:42 -0700

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