posting conventions (was GW and CP)

Dan · 21 Jun 2005, 07:28 · from 2005-June.txt.gz

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From: autarch at vippn.com (Dan)
Date: Tue Jun 21 07:28:53 2005
Subject: (urth) posting conventions (was GW and CP)
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Sorry David, chastisement duly noted. I'll avoid any non-contextual 
abbreviations in the future. Coming across an acronym without any prior 
attribution annoys me as well.

Maru explained it better than I, since I wouldn't have thought to include 
the wiki links. Thanks Maru!

Dan



>Message: 1
>Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:27:00 -0400
>From: Maru Dubshinki <marudubshinki at gmail.com>
>Subject: Re: (urth) gene wolfe and cyberpunk
>To: The Urth Mailing List <urth-urth.net at lists.urth.net>
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>
>Well, there you go: he has lapsed into anime vocabularly, so don't feel bad.
>
>In case you were wondering, GitS was discussed earlier- it is "Ghost
>in the Shell".
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_shell
>
>AS stands for the popular programming segment Cartoon Network airs
>late at night, called "Adult Swim".
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Swim
>(The name comes form the fact that at night, the kids aren't watching
>so they can show more mature 'adult' stuff- kinda like a pool. Get it,
>adult swim=... ah never mind.)
>
>~Maru
>On a very side note, I'm surpised you don't like bottom-posting- every
>forum Usenet or otherwise, has told me to bottom post, and definitely
>not top- but you seem to prefer top, so I shall.
>
>On 6/16/05, David Kirby <dbkirby at pressroom.com> wrote:
> > Okay, the abbreviation "DADoES" is probably familiar enough to SF fans,
> > even without my inclusion above of the improbably capitalized "do
> > androids dream of electric sheep."
> >
> > But "GitS"? "AS"? I have no idea what you're talking about here.
> > (That statement may pin me as an ol' fogey -- the first time I've
> > been so pinned -- but I suspect many written SF contributors will
> > agree with its sentiment.) These may have been explained earlier
> > in the thread, but they aren't explained in this message, and they
> > should have been. One of the advantages of Usenet or mailing lists
> > is that a reader or participant doesn't have to know *everything*
> > that has gone before in order to participate. (Most Web-based
> > discussion forums I've seen don't have or don't encourage a
> > ["here's what I had to say" --> "here's what you respond"] format.)
> >
> > (Top-posting is also appreciated, if appropriate, although
> > "interleaved" posting is perfectly accepted when appropriate.
> > Bottom-posting is not appreciated and indicates, at least to
> > me, that you've not read carefully the post you're responding
> > to.)
> >
> > Can we, please, try to be a bit more inclusive in future
> > messages?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >        -- David
>

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