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I can only imagine how infuriating that was for him!

• tharkun__ 5y ago
  Hehe yeah I can imagine! I mean on some level "infuriating". "Kids these days". Like me telling him how there are people on usenet and mailing lists that don't know how to quote properly! And he'd just chuckle and tell me how quoting a whole thread could actually be good. I was furious (not him). How could that be? FWIW, I still think I was right for the usenet and mailing list use case, where anyone could just see the whole thread. He was right as well though for corporate conversations like I learned a few years later at my first job where you were glad that everyone in the thread did a full quote and 5 levels down in the first forward you got you actually saw what was actually being asked and could shortcut a whole escalated discussion with a simple "Err guys, the original question was just X, here's the answer. Can we all just go back to work now?". Pros and Cons. Everything has at least two sides. Nothing is like it seems. Ever.