Re: [time-nuts] Editing, nitpicking, and graciousness

2010-12-22 Thread William H. Fite
> > This is the point I was trying, perhaps too subtly, to make in my recent > post in which I compared dialogue on this list with debate in the US > Senate. In some instances, the level of nit-picking has become extreme as > writers queue up, each to niggle at the post of the person just before >

Re: [time-nuts] Editing, nitpicking, and graciousness

2010-12-22 Thread EWKehren
Thank you Perrier, I could not say it any better. Right from my hart. My frustration along with the points so eloquently covered is that among some of the beat it to death responses there maybe be something worth wile that I have deleted, because I do not open all postings any more. Also some

[time-nuts] Editing, nitpicking, and graciousness

2010-12-21 Thread Perry Sandeen
List, I, and I suspect many others, archive this list on a word processor to save its information for projects and learning. That said, there are a number on this list who do not edit their replies to a thread so we end up with pages upon pages of previous postings. If one or more people do