[ExI] Weird!? - He's not on Facebook

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of William Flynn Wallace
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 6:21 AM
To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Subject: Re: [ExI] Weird!? - He's not on Facebook

 

 

 

On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 9:10 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com <mailto:atymes at gmail.com> > wrote:


>>…Do you see a "..." at the bottom of the message space, after you click
Reply but before you type anything?  If so, click that: that's where
GMail hides the message you're replying to, and clicking the "..."
shows the message with the reply header and quoting all set up.

​>…Thanks for your help.  Is this the way y'all want it?  No Bill W at the bottom?

 


 

BillW, anything you add to reduce ambiguity in who wrote what lines is perfectly acceptable and welcome.  We have had guys who add their initials after every paragraph they write, if it is on a topic where it really matters who wrote it.

 

Funny aside, kinda related.  In classified documents, every paragraph has a letter in parentheses which refer to that paragraph only.  If everything in that paragraph is unclassified there is a (U) at the start of that paragraph; otherwise (C ).  If any comment within a paragraph contains anything classified, that paragraph gets (C ) as does the whole document.  This led to all manner of silliness in our last election cycle.  It was reported our own former SecState say on the record she thought all those letter (C )s in there were alphabetical markings, never wondering what happened to A and B, along with all the letters D thru T inclusive.  That might be urban legend or a joke, but it was circulated.

 

Attributions are required for classification, where it matters.  If incorrect information is found marked as classified, somebody has to answer for how it got there.  If found unintentional, there is the usual hell to pay.  If found it was put there intentionally, there is a whole new level, 17 different kinds of hell to pay, all of them very bad for whoever dunnit.

 

Do your best to reduce ambiguity on attributions.  A BillW at the bottom of your post is always OK, a welcome thing.  Mistakes happen.  We won’t take your picture down off the piano.

 

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