Re: What Have You Been Playing... In December 2024?

On Fri, 3 Jan 2025 01:00:05 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07
<candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:

Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote at 16:27 this Thursday (GMT):

Spalls Hurgenson <spallshurgenson@gmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 2 Jan 2025 08:03:34 +0000, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:

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On 01/01/2025 23:04, Zaghadka wrote:

However, I would like to reintroduce the group to the concept of
"[snip]." We all have access to Spalls' full post. Unless you are
specifically responding to a part of it, in-line, it's gentle and kind to
[snip] stuff that everyone has access to in the first place.
 
Sorry, not sorry, to be netiquette nanny, but leaving 253 lines of Spalls
untouched to reply with 3 is a little beyond. Used to be we did this to
conserve server space and extend retention, but it also averts repetitive
strain injuries from rolling the mouse wheel. I have arthritis.
 
I'd almost rather people top-post...

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I tend to try and leave in enough context so that someone can see what
I'm actually responding to especially if a post makes multiple points.
That can save having to reread an entire post just to see what I'm on about.
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I do agree though, scrolling through a few pages of text to get to
"That's a good point." isn't overly helpful.

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Me too!

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spalls@aol.com

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AOL?!?!?!

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Yeah, it's still around, for some reason.

More specifically, it's a reference to how --after AOL started
offering access to the Usenet feed to its users-- newsgroups were
inundated with hundreds of new users whose primary contribution to
discussions were single-line responses. These were seen as extremely
poor netiquette, as they didn't add any worthwhile content to the
thread nor did they properly trim unnecessary lines. These posts were
often referred to as "me too" posts (because that was too often the
extent of the reply) and were seen as indicative of being new to the
community.

TL;DR: I was making a joke about an issue so old that even people who
were here back in the day don't recognize it ;-)