Re: Intro (fwd)

[Yiing Lin <ylin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 96 10:43:42 PST
From: Michael Kersenbrock <michaelk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Intro

> 1) I'm a 'little' bit shortsighted (-14, both sides)
>    so I always have to use some sort of viewer. I have
>    tried parallel viewing, free viewing, crossed-eyes
>    and a lot of Aspirin with my glasses ON only to
>    discover a year ago (on the age of 46) that I don't
>    need a viewer and not even my glasses, when I look at
>    stereo-pairs with a stereo-base of anything between
>    3,5 and 5 cm, including the ASCII ones ! I can see
>    perfectly sharp from a distance of 7 cm or less. Never
>    use a magnifying glass ! My eyeballs feel as if they

If I understand you correctly, your eyes work similarly to
the way mine does.  I'm nearsighted (although not as strongly
as yourself) and I can free-view with great ease (and no
strain whatsoever) so long as I am not wearing my glasses
or my contact lenses.  With them on, it's nearly impossible.
I'm only a couple years younger than you are.


> 7) Why is it that co-listers, responding to a question,
>    start by repeating the question (prefixed with '>') ?
>    A reference to the Digest # and the number from the
>    Digest Index will be more than sufficient to identify.
>    All this takes unneccesary web/mail/whatever time &
>    space. Or do I miss something ? I keep all the Digests
>    on my PC in .TXT format, and use a simple text search
>    to find anything I want.

Some people, like myself, don't subscribe to the Digest form.
I get the individual email-postings one at a time during
the day and -- I hope nobody is crushed -- I don't keep all
the postings, only rare selected ones. I can access the archives
on the Web as needed, but it isn't practical on a letter by
letter basis.

Having ">"'s puts the topic back into context for readers like
myself who have trouble  remembering thread contexts.  When I came 
in this morning, I had more than 200 items in my email in-box 
accumulated over the weekend, so postings need to be pretty 
much self-contained without needing external references to remind 
myself of the topic context.  The ">"'s (usually called quoting) 
is also done to put things into context for those who start
reading a discussion thread in the middle.


>    I sincerily hope this is not too much for the first time .
>    Scratch out anything that is boring you, and don't be too 
>    critical about my English. We use a lot of Dutch over here 
>    y'now. I hope to contribute a lot to the list, just to help
>    other people, as good as I can, with my humble knowledge.

Your English is perfect and welcome to the list!

Mike K.


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