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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Subject: Re: Most significant advance in bike technology for speed?
Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:59:36 -0500
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On 4 Feb 2025 12:43:35 GMT, Roger Merriman <roger@sarlet.com> wrote:

>Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 20:51:37 -0500, Frank Krygowski
>> <frkrygow@gXXmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 2/3/2025 10:12 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>> On 2/3/2025 8:54 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Youngstown has much more crime than Poland. So does Philadelphia, 
>>>>> Cleveland, DC, LA, Atlanta, Oklahoma City, etc etc etc
>>>>> 
>>>>> But I've ridden in all of them, always unarmed. I've ridden in most 
>>>>> neighborhoods in Youngstown. The worst crime I ever encountered was to 
>>>>> have a cyclometer swiped, once in Poland Township, once in Ireland.
>>>>> 
>>>>> After 70+ years of such experiences, am I really supposed to pretend 
>>>>> "This could be the day I'll have to blow somebody away to save my life"?
>>>>> 
>>>>> No. At some point, repeatedly fearing something that has never 
>>>>> happened crosses over into phobia.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, small but not zero.
>>>> p.s. nice snip.
>>> 
>>> Andrew, you've certainly been here long enough to understand the ancient 
>>> Usenet recommendation to trim content except what one's responding to.
>>> 
>>> I notice that practice has faded. We have posts that roll on for screen 
>>> after screen after screen, six or seven responses deep. But trimming is 
>>> still a good idea. As always, a person can scroll upward to see what was 
>>> posted. Usenet doesn't forget.
>> 
>> Snipping works well for people who don't have the backbone to reply to
>> all that the original poster said.
>>  
>> 
>> --
>> C'est bon
>> Soloman
>> 
>
>No it is good practice, makes posts more readable, I don’t trim enough
>mainly by time it’s some monster thread when no one’s trimmed it’s
>difficult to make a start frankly!
>
>Roger Merriman

I'd argue that it's not a good practice when it's done specifically
not to have to reply to, or to take out of context, something in the
original post, which is so often the case with Krygowski's snippage.

--
C'est bon
Soloman