From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,84be9c5a380874d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-03 01:41:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dewar@gnat.com (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] ettiquite - was gprof with gnat Date: 3 May 2002 01:41:57 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <5ee5b646.0205030041.51430c7e@posting.google.com> References: <3CCD2328.C5722FC3@epfl.ch> <3CCF8702.A7537851@epfl.ch> <5ee5b646.0205010433.6fc30656@posting.google.com> <3CD0E169.88A260A0@epfl.ch> <5ee5b646.0205020353.650900e5@posting.google.com> <3CD14A98.6CF0B177@raytheon.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.232.38.244 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1020415317 7698 127.0.0.1 (3 May 2002 08:41:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 3 May 2002 08:41:57 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23474 Date: 2002-05-03T08:41:57+00:00 List-Id: Mark Johnson wrote in message news:<3CD14A98.6CF0B177@raytheon.com>... > [flame on] > Please calm down - I think there's an intolerance virus going around > that causes people to get nasty about proper net etiquette. I see this > kind of response on several newsgroups and believe it is unnecessary. I > suggest a personal note to the OP instead of a public one if you feel a > rebuke is necessary. That I find is an UN common courtesy that should be > present. This rebuke is public to make the point to others (I'll never > change you Robert :-). > [flame off] "please turn it off" hardly seems to be violent intolerance, and besides, I note that the above note is a nice example of not following your own advice :-) The reason that I think it is important to complain about excessive quoting is that it is one of the things that greatly increases noise to signal ratio in a newsgroup. Comp.lang.ada used to be far more useful than it is, and it is a pity to see how many people have abandoned it. In this case we had someone who claimed that if they turned off the quoting option, they assumed that this meant that the message would be included without quotes. That's plain misinformation that is worth correcting, since otherwise someone else might make the same mistake. The reply to this message has it right. If you people to read your messages, be more careful quoting junk. particularly annoying, and increasingly more common is two people talking to one another quoting entire messages, and amazingly these programs have no guard against recursive quoting of messages so you get quadratic accumulation of junk. I have seem messages quoted four levels deep :-( I find that I bother to look at fewer and fewer CLA threads these days, because so many of them have excessive noise to signal ratio.