A voluntary solution

[P3D john bercovitz <bercov@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

1) Try to keep post length down to something appropriate for 
short-attention-span theater.  Unless you're simply being 
contentious (not encouraged), no one is likely to read a one-page 
post.  Example: After three years of investigating the literature 
and three days of calculations, I posted to tech-3d what I 
consider a remarkable (and simple) formula giving the correct 
distance to the center of perspective.  No one read it.  Why?  
It's almost two pages long.  So I posted it to sci.optics... with 
the same result.  (OK, I'm boring.  8-)
 
2) Try to make sure that what you write is significantly longer 
than what you quote.  _Sterling_ example: BobH doesn't quote; he 
gives a one-sentence summary of the previous post and goes on from 
there.  Lazy he ain't.  Not always possible, but what a goal!
 
3) Especially if you're posting more than a couple of times a day, 
you might consider whether or not each of your posts distinctly 
accomplishes something.  Sometimes there are a lot of questions to 
answer but sometimes...
 
John B


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