Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Peter Moylan Newsgroups: sci.lang,alt.usage.english Subject: =?UTF-8?Q?Re:_To_waffle=2c_=e2=80=98to_waver=2c_to_vacillate=2c_to_?= =?UTF-8?Q?equivocate=2c_to_dither=e2=80=99?= Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:08:49 +1000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <874jbqlz6d.fsf@parhasard.net> <889c5dbf100f389994b0045c982b3eb2@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2024 03:08:53 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b54bcf871cc942eedc2e5a80b9511402"; logging-data="3478583"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18a9MGsSQ8+gYhsqRHXRpGt" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; Warp 4.5; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.8.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:zXCN6SSWFJHNWxqckO5WtTJiGAk= In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2133 On 26/04/24 01:45, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote: > jerryfriedman wrote: > >> By the way, Steve isn't the only participant in a.u.e. who doesn't >> notice Subject lines. > > Certainly not. > >> I don't know how that happens, > > Automatically. And I hate it if I am 'forced' to quote something > that appears only in the subject line. It's automatic for me too. I step from one article to the next by tapping on the space bar; and I read the body of the article without, usually, letting my eyes wander to other parts of the screen. I picked up that habit when AUE was a high-traffic newsgroup, and it was desirable to have an efficient way of getting through the articles quickly. If someone refers to "above", I'm reluctant to waste my time by going back and re-reading. -- Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org Newcastle, NSW