In message , Mayayana
writes:
| Hmm. All I want is that whenever and however I open Explorer, I get two
| panes - a tree view in the left pane, and a details view in the right
| pane. I don't really mind what size the window is (unless it's tiny or
| huge), and I don't mind if any folder has a special icon.
|

You thought it would be simple, did you?

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| Mayayana, are you deliberately removing them?

Yes.

| (Without them, it looks as if you Mayayana said "I just remember ..."

Yes. Not so good, huh? Even with them in it can get
very confusing. And what a mess on the reposting websites,
where whole threads full of get reprinted over and
over down the page.

Yes.

People have different approaches. People
who started out with console mode often like to include
the entire thread in each post. To me that's sloppy and
outdated. I have to scroll down through a pile of muck
to find the new post.

Me too. I delete large chunks of what I'm replying to - and if I end up
deleting all of the contributions from a given person, I delete that
person's attribution line, too.

I take the approach that since I'm using a modern GUI
and people can easily glance at earlier posts for reference,
a post should be written as neatly and clearly as possible,
using only as much quoted text as necessary. Newsreaders

Definitely agree there.

now have a "treeview" layout and PCs have a mouse. It's
no longer a scrolling console. There's no reason that people
can't easily figure out who' replying to whom. It's
graphically displayed.

Ah, there I don't agree. It's easier to see who said what if you _don't_
have to poke around lots of places, if it's all in the post you're
reading. I do agree with you that spurious stuff should be deleted, and
far too few people do that.

I'm not going to get into a long debate about this. I find
that there are several ways people like to post, and 95%
of people (including me) tolerate all of them without
quibble. Then there are the "usenet fascists" who just
insist that everyone has to do things their way. Some of

I try through persuasion rather than fascism.
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to reason with obsessive compulsives. Anyone who can't
tolerate my posts doesn't have to read my posts.

Yes, but you post helpful stuff; I don't want to miss on that (-:.

(Personally I think it's a bit rude to add thumbnail philosophy,
advertising, resume, etc., like a graffiti postscript,
to every post, but I wasn't going to say anything.

If it's in a signature, it should be cut off and not requoted by any
reputable news client (i. e. that recognises the "-- " line).

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To know how to hide one's ability is great skill. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld,
writer (1613-1680)