[ExI] robo-rescue

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>>... Keith, I agree with your comments but for some reason for your last few posts the font size has become so small it makes it very difficult to read.

>...Huh, I thought it was just my reader showing that.  Adrian

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Mine's doing that too.  It gave me an idea however.  Imagine a script which automatically dropped the font of each reply one level while leaving the new post at a standard size, say 16 point.  Then a multi-post thread would be unambiguous regarding who wrote what.  Each previous reply would be still there but diminished in size.  It would be easy for those who followed the entire thread to see who wrote what, as the older posts, say ten replies previous would be down to microfilm.  However, a prole new to the thread could copy into a text editor and pop it all back to a standard font, or raise everything ten font sizes, to maintain the feature of indicating who posted what.  The most recent posts would be enormous of course, but no worries, we are not space limited or severely memory limited.  We are only time limited, for our collective attention spans have grown very short.  We need to think of books as something which could be printed on 20 to 30 pages of standard bookstore paper for instance.

spike