Author: Don Dailey
Date: 11:21:57 01/18/99
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On January 18, 1999 at 13:52:09, KarinsDad wrote: >On January 18, 1999 at 07:56:43, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>On January 18, 1999 at 05:08:54, Prakash Das wrote: >> >[snip] >> >>>I am not a chess programmer but am a scientist type (engineer and all)... If >>>some (serious-minded) people come here to look for programming related threads >>>one can assume they don't want to sift through hundreds of "off-topic" posts. >>>Time is a valuable commodity. >> >> >>Now iit is you yhar is falling in some kind of literary flowery: to "sift >>trought" is not the real thing but just an image. In fact just to look at the >>titles of the post is enough, or even less. I do not believe you expend more >>than half a minute in detecting the purely programming stuff posts. > >This is untrue in some cases. An example in point is the Subject: of this post >which has no bearing on the topic at hand (and the resulting spinoffs). Even a >non-programming post can spin off into a programming one. To fully ensure that >you are reading all of the information that you are interested in, you must read >all of the posts. This is especially true since very few posts have their >Subject: changed once the topic changes. Only if you are willing to miss a few >posts on the topics that you are interested in can you use a filtering technique >of reading only the Subject: (or titles as you named them). > >And yes, time is a valuable commodity. Hence, for many people, they must use a >filtering technique and, hence, they will miss an occasional posting of >interest. C'est la vie! > >KarinsDad :) > >[snip] I knew we agreed on something! I often feel forced to read many posts that I would not read if I knew in advance what they were about! Usually I have a good idea, but paranoia makes me want to be sure by just reading them. - Don
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