[gentoo-user] really large inline replies

[kashani]

Really large inline replies with five people and thirteen separate 
arguments are pretty much unreadable. I'm all for fighting things out to 
bitter end, but not when it's impossible to follow along. I'd recommend 
the following:

1. snip. snip a lot. Keep the point you're arguing and snip the rest. If 
someone can't follow then they should check the archives or use a 
threaded client.

2. Paragraphs and summaries are your friends. Here's an example.

"We agree on points a and b so I'll skip them for now. However you say x 
and y are the best choices for w reasons. I say sure x is fine, but only 
with z. And y by itself is right out because of i, j, and k."

Also you can work an insult in a little easier. Something like, "You're 
under the delusion that x and y are the best choices and then proceed to 
misunderstand w as some logic for your nonsense."

Now you've made the other guy sound like a complete knucklehead while 
showing that you do understand his so called logic while summing it up 
for the rest of us and follow it up with a your own argument which reads 
and flows nicely without having to parse thirty lines hidden in two 
hundred lines of quotes. :-)

kashani
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