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I keep getting large icons?
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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? (-: [] 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 To me that's sloppy and outdated.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. [] Kudos. :-) 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 (-:. This whole debate has nothing to do with "fascism". It only has to do with making it easier to follow a thread. If you have to poke around in several places just to read and follow a thread, I think there is a problem there. :-) But I'll tell you what might have to do with "fascism": the arguments over "top" vs "bottom" vs "inline" postings, and that only one style is supposedly right, and is always best (cough). :-) (because it ain't so) Context is everything, in such cases. |
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