Threadtiquette

Lee Berman · 07 Jan 2011, 20:36 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:36:39 -0500
Subject: (urth) Threadtiquette
Message-ID: <SNT123-W337107EA39A84C809B0A43CF0B0 at phx.gbl>

FWIW, my 02/100 worth is that readability/comprehensibility is the most important issue.
I consider everyone here authors, of a sort, and thus artists. I'd prefer a bit of artistic
license be granted promoting the free-flow of ideas over the enforcment of standard forms 
which might, at times, hinder that free-flow.

(either way, I praise whatver higher powers that be that I no longer have to plow through 40
copied paragraphs of responses to get to the actual words of the post author, which used to 
be true here.)

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