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- From: mls@panix.com (Michael Siemon)
- Subject: Re: Morally good hypertext
- Summary: Shirley -- not
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.232705.9250@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:27:05 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.041329.29225@spdcc.com> <1992Dec22.162513.10206@news.media.mit.edu> <1992Dec22.184128.14651@netcom.com>
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- In article <1992Dec22.184128.14651@netcom.com> robj@netcom.com
- (Rob Jellinghaus) writes:
-
- >Exactly. Netnews, insofar as it makes it easy to quote portions of
- >earlier articles but hard to view the quoted article, allows only
- >partial access to context. If you could click on any quote in an
- >article you're reading, and see the quote in its original context,
- >imagine how many flamewars would die before even beginning....
-
- I seriously doubt it! How many times, when in the heat of "righteous"
- indignation that leads to so many of the flames, does *anyone* bother
- to read even the paragraph following in the same bloody post? In
- lots of cases, context *is* "supplied below" and available with no
- more than the key to page onwards. At other times, it may take two
- or three keystrokes (a ^P for example) to track backwards -- again,
- the flamer is too hot to trot out *his* outrage to bother taking even
- a simple precaution to check it out, first. [needless to say, SOME
- do -- and responses get modified or deleted accordingly; this does
- NOT seem to lead us to a condition of all posters attending carefully
- to contexts!]
- --
- Michael L. Siemon "We honour founders of these starving cities
- mls@panix.com Whose honour is the image of our sorrow ...
- They built by rivers and at night the water
- Running past the windows comforted their sorrow."
-