[HPFGU-Feedback] The HPFGU difference

[Jordan Abel]

On 8/27/06, lunalovegoodrules <lunalovegood at ...> wrote:
> These groups require that people format their posts as whole answers,
> not as single points at the end of a series of nested attributions, as
> a policy to encourage people to compose, to think about their posts as
> items in themselves, not as some part of a generalized, internet chat
> or usenet "noise". There is no law that all internet groups need to
> use identical rules.

It is singularly unclear what point you are trying to make. What I have
been advocating is being _allowed_ to format a post as a whole answer,
rather than as a list of unrelated point/counterpoint responses. Do you
really think that having more attribution lines or having them in
a "more sensible" place accomplishes this?

The form and placement of attribution lines, the presence or not of
a signature, are mere window dressing - it doesn't change the overall
truth that messages, here or anywhere else, _aren't_ formatted as
a coherent whole. That is what i've been trying to change by proposing
this experiment.

And where have I said that there is a law that all groups need to use
identical rules? I've never said that. All I did was point out the irony
in calling my (even less like Usenet) suggestion "non-standard" when no
standard exists describing the way things are done here.