<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I honestly cannot tell if you are being rhetorical, or if you are <br>
so technically naive that you genuinely don't know that this is an email <br>
mailing list rather than instant messenger or IRC or some other form of <br>
instantaneous chat.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">Both :p</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Newcomers that never spoke on a forum are sometimes lost, they don't see the structure. Therefore I'm helping those newcomers, and the old timer will be like "yeah, he technically defines terms that are obvious for me".</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">When I was a newcomer on this list, I was lost, people said things like "don't up post" or "don't put the answer below" or "answer inline" in a jargon I didn't know about.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm CS teacher, and I see everyday that things not said explicitly create misunderstanding to newcomers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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[...]<br>
> When I speak on TraditionalDifferedEmail, I'm more like LBYL (Look before<br>
> you Leap), I write a long, but structured message, such that people see<br>
> first the structure, (intro, body, conclusion), and look in the message if<br>
> they want.<br>
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That doesn't sound like the sorts of messages you have been sending <br>
here recently.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">Yep, depending on the thread, I'm either type EAFP or LBYL, and I think people can easily guess which type :) (long message = LBYL).</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">However, I don't always "read myself two times" before I send (because of my EAFP nature) so my last mail for example was LBYL but has some spelling mistakes.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">--</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And I guess people will ask if they are not sure.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't mean this as a criticism of such short posts. Sometimes all that <br>
needs to be said is a single sentence.</blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">Agreed !!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> But when you describe your <br>
posting style one way, but actually post another way, that is precisely <br>
the sort of confusing lack of clarity that this thread is about.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto">Indeed, mixing standards is bad, but on the other hand, people can think "Robert is Eafp", "Robert is more LBYL when writing long messages")</div></div>