Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in
<BfOdnZ34jYzHrZvanZ2dnUVZ_hudnZ2d@comcast.com>:
> Pavel Lepin wrote:
>> Captain Paralytic <paul_lautman@yahoo.com> wrote in
>> <1191584421.969485.214300@g4g2000hsf.googlegroups. com>:
>>> On 5 Oct, 12:02, Pavel Lepin <p.le...@ctncorp.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Captain Paralytic <paul_laut...@yahoo.com> wrote in
>>>>
<1191573275.035269.153...@k79g2000hse.googlegroups .com>:
>>>>> On 5 Oct, 09:00, "Rik Wasmus"
>>>>> <luiheidsgoe...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> I gathered the OP meant 'next empty slot'. In which
>>>>>> case these 'slots' should either have a table or the
>>>>>> OP should tell us more about them.
>
>>>> Isn't that denormalisation? Anyway, maintaining a table
>>>> of empty time slots for a foreseeable future sounds a
>>>> bit like an engineering hell to me.
>
>>> You appended this to my post, but I wasn't suggesting
>>> that he would be using pre-defined slots.
>>
>> And I was responding to Rik Wasmus' suggestion. That's
>> why my response addressing this point was right under his
>> words. It's part of what inline replying is about. By the
>> way, may I most respectfully advise you that with a
>> little effort it's perfectly possible to post properly
>> quoted replies even while using Google Groups? Of course,
>> using a real newsreader and newsserver it's even easier
>> than that.
>
> Then you should know enough to reply to the message you're
> responding to, not some message further down the chain.

Actually, I'm unsure as to what's the accepted norm on
techie newsgroups is. I've seen people doing both, do not
remember any discussions on this issue, and skimming over
netiquette guidelines didn't uncover anything on this as
well. Personally, I've always been gravitating towards
concentrating the discussion in one place (occasionally
even going too far in responding to several posts from
different sub-threads in just one message--without properly
updating the References header) instead of splitting it
into penny-packets, but I might've been entirely wrong in
doing this. Perhaps you're aware of an authoritative source
on the problem?

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