Thank you for saying that, Chuck!?? This is just the kind of thing that drives me nuts.? I get a LOT of emails,? and I don't have the time or patience to read all these just to figure out what the OP was talking about.... so I just hit DELETE.
Daun
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On 6/5/2021 8:27 AM, Chuck Harris wrote:
Ok, then let's take our pair of posts as a "for instance".
Both are irrelevant to the OP's question. Both are off topic
to HPAK's charter. The OP didn't ask about posting etiquette.
And, your post has no quoted content, so it is pretty opaque as
to what it relates to. I have to use my sometimes faulty memory,
or do extensive digging through the 130,759 HPAK posts that are
in the HPAK folder in my inbox, to figure out what you are
referring to. There are two dozen posts scattered over several
days in this group of threads...
To look at things from my point of view; I use an email reader
known as Claws Mail, and I see 25 some odd clues as to what your
post is referring:
...
Re:[HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment]How to fix broken HP key
Re:[HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment]How to fix broken HP key
Re:[HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment]How to fix broken HP key
Re:[HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment]How to fix broken HP key
Re:[HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment]How to fix broken HP key
...
Re:[HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment]How to fix broken HP key
My email reader has only limited space to put the subjects, author,
date posted, and size, so it abbreviates some of the information.
Seeing the above, the only way I can find out what you are talking
about, beyond the mostly useless subject line, is to go back and
select each previous post and reread it... there are potentially
some odd 130 thousand posts to wade through if the threading has
been busted up by someone's broken email program... and they always
are...
Email users, which are most of us, don't get a window with all of
the previous posts lined up one after another facebook or twitter
style, like you see on the groupsio web interface.
And, we get to deal with the broken threading that some posters
add to the mix, where sub posts form completly new root posts...
Not to mention those that don't know how to start a new thread,
so they just edit the subject line and post their new stuff...
So, short of re-reading each and every post in a thread, how do
you propose we figure out exactly what the OP was asking, and
exactly what has been suggested in earlier replies... When you
(and others) refuse to quote any relevant bits of the message
to which you are replying?
Just sayin' ... walk a mile in another man's shoes, and all that.
-Chuck Harris
On Sat, 05 Jun 2021 04:10:18 -0700 "Robert G8RPI via groups.io"
<robert8rpi@...> wrote:
I don't mind thread drift, and don't like highly moderated groups
(particuarly with slow moderation where you get lots of similar
replies). What bugs me is people giving irelevent solutions or ones
that have already been made. I think the OP may have given up a I've
had no response to my offer of a replacement.
Robert G8RPI.
--
Daun E. Yeagley II, N8ASB
