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 Message 1699 
 Wilfred van Velzen to August Abolins 
 Re: to ponder ETs out there.. 
 20 Nov 24 15:50:14 
 
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Hi August,

On 2024-11-20 09:09:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> I think top posting and not trimming what you quote to
 WvV>> the essentials, is just showing your lazyness to the
 WvV>> world! ;-)

 AA> I think Ed is using a phone for his echomail. Must be harder to
 AA> fiddle with Ctrl-Y (to delete lines), or highlight a block to
 AA> delete, than it is with a proper/physical keyboard.

So it can be done on a phone too! So I stand by my proposition: Just lazyness.
;-)

 AA> If I recognize that someone has top-posted, I just look over
 AA> the bottom/quoted part for the essentials and skip the rest
 AA> like the extra taglines and origin lines.  Easy to do.

Maybe easy to do, but also more effort on your part. So the lazyness of others
makes your effort to understand a message harder! ;-)

 AA> This chatter is ephemeral. It doesn't need to always look
 AA> pretty. ;) :D

;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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