From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Wed Jan 07 2009 - 17:13:10 CST
On 1/7/2009 3:00 PM, Rick McGowan wrote:
> -1
>
> Asmus, and others... This bit of e-fashion is becoming annoyingly
> e-common. Please, if you want to add your voice to what someone else
> has just written, then please write something that requires more than
> one bit to relay. Or at least truncate their note.
Which I did, so there you have my -1 on your message [insert emoticon of
your choice here]. You will note the "..." that elided lengthy passages
not needed. I have no choice but to retain the full message below so you
can see for yourself.
A./
>
> Receiving an e-mail that says merely "+1" -- i.e., exactly one bit of
> information -- followed by the /complete /note that was just sent by
> someone else is annoying. It's like, 1000/1 noise to signal.
>
> And it's popping up more and more on the Unicode list and this list.
>
> Please de-sist.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> (And next time I see a particularly egregious example on the Unicode
> list I think I'll also mention this pet peeve over there...)
>
> Rick
>
>
> Asmus Freytag wrote:
>> On 1/7/2009 1:17 PM, Kenneth Whistler wrote:
>>> James Kass wrote, in response to Mark Davis:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>> There don't appear to
>>>> be pragmatic interoperability issues driving Unicode's push
>>>> to encode these emoji.
>>>>
>>>
>>> This just seems to me to be a willful refusal to believe
>>> what the folks dealing with these interoperability issues
>>> have asserted, more than once.
>>>
>> +1
>>
>>> ...
>>> I recognize that you and others strongly disagree. So be it.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> +1
>>
>> A./
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
>
>
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