Re: Another view on analysis and ER

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 04:11:41 +0100
Message-ID: <475a0a12$0$245$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

paul c schreef:
> mAsterdam wrote:

>>
>> The art of stating the obvious ... Argh! It's Bob!
>> Oh well. I'll push the send button (called 'Verzenden' in my 
>> Thunderbird) anyway.

>
> That explains a lot! I use the same newsreader and it's the main reason
> I'm incompetent to respond to long nested conversations.
>
> Eg., it will show Jan H's nickname in black, but his text might be blue,
> David C as blue but with green text, Jim J as blue but his text in what
> I'm guessing is called chartreuse. (Sorry Jim about your colour here,
> but I think this might be partly why there is so much mis-attribution
> and fanciful flying (apart from widespread lazy snipping of course).

Heh. No substitue for good old self discipline and establishing who wrote what for yourself. I must have put some option 'off': I have no colour assistance whatsoever.

> Back to this one, I'm starting to think some people can be confused by
> the colours even when there is only one level of nesting. Am getting
> the hazy impression that I actually said a relation could have two
> different headers!
>
> (The only reason I down-loaded the latest version was because I mis-read
> the hype as letting one classify a single post in multiple
> categories/colours. If they must hype I wish they'd get their hype
> straight. I wouldn't object to using Google groups except I can't seem
> to find a way to simply order all posts by descending date, regardless
> of topic.)

-- 
"The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it."
Chinese Proverb.

Received on Fri Dec 07 2007 - 21:11:41 CST