Re: MT VOID, 10/25/24 -- Vol. 43, No. 17, Whole Number 2351

Note that Vol. 43, No. 16, Whole Number 2350 never appeared, nor
did any reply to it.  The last one before today was Vol. 43, No. 15,
Whole Number 2349, two weeks ago.

As for capitalization rules, I don't think they've changed.  They're
not defined by what simple-minded software defaults to.

But then I still believe that text in a reply should only be quoted to
establish context, and should appear before, not after, the response
to it, so what do I know?  Anyone who has read much recent email knows
that *every* word of a message being replied to should be quoted,
and should be quoted *after* the reply.  And that it should then be
followed by a second copy of the original message, this one full of
angle brackets and ampersands.  And, most importantly of all, the
reply must prove that the replier didn't actually read a word of the
message being replied to.

For instance just ten minutes ago I got a one-line non-responsive
email containing 274 lines of surplusage.  And it wasn't even
meant for me; I was being CCd for no good reason.  With advancing
technology, by the end of the decade I expect that to exceed a
thousand lines of rubbish for every one line of meaningful content.
Hey, disk space and bandwidth are both cheap and plentiful, so why
not?  Similarly, if the cost of housing and plumbing were to get
low enough, every home could have 10,000 toilets, meaning you'd
never again need to flush one.
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