Re: [photo-3d] Splitting hairs (was Beam splitters vs. Image splitters)

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:47 PM 01/09/2001, you wrote:
>Both Stuart and yourself should be applauded for doing this!   By including
>an entire string, anyone can come in at any point and find out exactly what
>was covered, by whom, in what order, without taking anything out of context.
>Perhaps most important, you don't have to go through several days or weeks
>of former e-mails to instantly have everything all together.  If you are out
>of town or otherwise away from your computer for a while (as I often am) it
>is most convenient to pick up the thread, with all of the relevant
>information, from just the most recent posting, just deleting the previous
>missives on the subject without even bothering to open them.

I completely disagree with this.  Those of us who read mail regularly 
should not be penalized in order to make life convenient for those who 
don't.  If you read mail regularly, you can follow the discussions without 
having to have your mailbox clogged with increasingly longer and less 
intelligible messages.  For those who, like John, don't read e-mail 
regularly, there are archives of all the messages on the egroups Web site.

Note also that some people subscribe in "digest" mode, meaning they get all 
the messages concatenated into one or two digests a day.  If everyone 
quoted earlier messages in their entirety, digests would consist of 
messages like:

A
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B
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C
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D
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etc.  It gets ridiculous.

-pd

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