Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

[Duncan]

Steven D'Aprano posted on Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:23:41 +1100 as excerpted:

> It is common sense really: before pressing Send, consider how your email
> will appear to the recipient. Will it make sense? Can they understand
> what you are responding to? Do they have to scroll through 20 pages of
> quoted text to see your reply?

Agreed. =:^)

It's additionally worth noting that to some extent this is all personal 
preference, personal preferences are just that, personal, and thus by 
definition can and do sometimes conflict, and there's no posting police 
that are going to enforce some posting law on you (well, as long as you 
don't post copyrighted attachments without permission, etc. =:^\ ).

So if you want, you can break all sorts of posting rules and nobody's 
likely to stop you -- after all, if they can't stop the spammers, are 
they really going to stop you?

But by the same token, it's worth noting that replies, and in a world 
with scoring/killfiles, even reading a post, are voluntary as well.  
While you /can/ be as obnoxious as you choose with your posts, if you 
want reasonable replies, you'll choose not to be, or you'll eventually 
simply find your posts being ignored (in the worst case because they're 
now unseen, as they kill-filtered you!) by the people most likely to give 
you the most useful answers!

So the wise poster quickly learns what type of requests tend to come from 
the people that also tend to have the most useful answers, and posts and 
ultimately entire groups/lists will naturally tend to conform to the 
opinions/requests of those who generate the most useful replies.

Fortunately for me, my replies apparently tend to the more useful side, 
so my opinions and requests tend to get honored a bit more than those of 
others might, even if it's only to please my arbitrariness and thus keep 
those useful posts coming! =:^/

But I do try to make the point that it's just my opinion, you don't have 
to agree, while equally making the corresponding point that it IS my 
opinion, and I don't HAVE to reply, either!  Whose loss that would be, 
mine or yours, is of course also personal opinion.  You may well decide 
that the value of my replies isn't worth what I ask, or indeed, that 
you'd rather not see my replies at all, and that too would be your right, 
the latter being what scores and kill-filtering are there for.  I guess 
that's not /so/ arbitrary; in fact, it sounds downright pragmatic!  =:^)

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