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Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks

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Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> writes:

> In article <barmar-F71772.11225802062015@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>,
>  Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> > In article <mkkgg3$ffg$1@news.albasani.net>,
> >  Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > On 6/2/15 10:15 AM, Barry Margolin wrote:
> > > > In article <mkk8nh$q41$1@news.albasani.net>,
> > > >   Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> On 6/1/15 10:39 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:
> > > >>> On 2015-06-01, David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> On Monday, 01 June 2015 16:21 -0700,
> > > >>>>    in article <2015060116211142553-xxx@yyyzzz>,
> > > >>>>    gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> wrote:
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>>> I have a few hundred bookmarks in a few score categories and managed
> > > >>>>> to delete a boatload of them.
> > > >>>>
> > > >>>> You forgot to mention what browser you're using.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> Yeah, he should have mentioned the browser name in the body; but it was
> > > >>> in the subject, "Safari's Storage of Bookmarks". ; )
> > > >>>
> > > >>
> > > >> Kinda pointless, really, when it's in the Subject Line, dontcha' think?
> > > >>
> > > >> If one's attention span doesn't last from there to the text in the body
> > > >> of the post, it's probably not good to be in a public forum;-)
> > > >
> > > > For some reason, some people apparently have their newsreaders
> > > > configured not to show the subjects by default, they just step through
> > > > the messages sequentially. But surely there's a command to show the
> > > > header when they need to see it, and they'd use that when they run into
> > > > confusing (to them) posts like this.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > Hmmmm, that would explain it-- but I'm thinking that if they do 
> > > something like that, they're probably "low-information" voters as well...
> > 
> > I think they do it just so they have an excuse to make 
> > passive-aggressive responses, pointing out that the OP committed the 
> > criminal offense of putting relevant information in the Subject line.
> 
> DING DING DING DING DING! We have a winner!
> 
> Johnny, tell the folks at home what our contestant has just won!

BZZZZT.

This would be something like a newspaper having an article that said
something in the headline that it didn't mention in the entire
article.  Certainly not a criminal offense -- just poor writing style, 
which clearly caused real confusion in this case.

The subject in Usenet postings is also not as conspicuous as a
headline in a newpaper because in Usenet it can be surrounded by other
information like the sender, date, newsgroups and organization
(depending on the reader).

Martin

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Safari's Storage of Bookmarks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-06-01 16:21 -0700
  Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-06-01 19:31 -0400
    Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-06-01 17:09 -0700
  Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-06-01 18:45 -0500
    Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-06-01 19:58 -0400
    Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-06-01 17:11 -0700
    Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-06-02 02:39 +0000
      Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-06-02 08:48 -0400
        Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-06-02 10:15 -0400
          Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Aldo Raine <apache@scalpem.net> - 2015-06-02 11:01 -0400
            Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-06-02 11:22 -0400
              Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2015-06-02 09:14 -0700
                Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Martin Frost me at invalid stanford daht edu <nospam@stanford.edu.invalid> - 2015-06-02 15:02 -0700
                Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Savageduck <savageduck1@{REMOVESPAM}me.com> - 2015-06-02 15:59 -0700
                Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-06-02 20:29 -0400
                Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-06-04 18:46 +1200
              Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz (Jamie Kahn Genet) - 2015-06-04 18:46 +1200
              Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2015-06-06 08:55 -0500
          Newsreader settings (was Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks) Patty Winter <patty1@wintertime.com> - 2015-06-02 18:11 +0000
            Re: Newsreader settings (was Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2015-06-02 14:53 -0400
  Re: Safari's Storage of Bookmarks Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-06-02 02:37 +0000

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