Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Kelwin Wylie <hebrew AT wylie.ca>]

Gary,

I agree that neither my message nor yours is talking about Biblical
Hebrew.  However, we have had a number of messages recently about
frequency of posting and length of messages.  I posted my question to
Karl in hopes of reducing both.  If all involved know that Karl is not
going to read messages longer than about 100 lines (based on his answer
to my question, 3 x 34 lines = 102 lines), then those replying to his
messages will hopefully either send shorter replies or not bother
replying knowing that he won't read it.  This should result in fewer and
shorter messages on this list.  And perhaps all of us, me included, will
be able to get more out of this list.

And now I will go back to lurking on the list and hoping to glean
nuggets of useful information from the sometimes fascinating discussions
on this list.

Kelwin Wylie

On 05/24/2010 11:02 PM, Hedrick Gary wrote:
> Karl, Kelwin, et al.,
> 
> This seems like a lot of hoops to make everyone jump through just because 
> of basically one person's long and tedious posts—and the handful of people 
> on this list who bother to answer them. In the meantime, we're not talking 
> about biblical Hebrew anymore.
> 
> Gary Hedrick
> San Antonio, Texas
> 
> On May 24, 2010, at 8:59 PM, Kelwin Wylie wrote:
> 
>> Karl,
>>
>> "two or three screens" is very imprecise.  Could you please be more
>> specific about what you mean by "screen"?  How many lines are in your
>> "screen"?  At the moment I am reading my messages in a window in my mail
>> program which is 23 lines high.  So your 3 screen limit would be 69
>> lines.  But I could open up the message to the full height allowed with
>> my current resolution which would be 56 lines for a 3 screen length of 168.
>>
>> There is a huge difference between a 69 line message and a 168 line 
>> message.
>>
>> So, could you please specify your size limit in a more precise and
>> meaningful manner?  I would suggest a limit specified in number of lines.
>>
>> And to be more precise, we should also know the width of the window in
>> your mail program.  Since many mail programs (possibily including yours)
>> automatically wrap long lines, if we send you a message with lines
>> longer than your mailer is configured for and if your mailer wraps
>> lines, we could inadvertantly send you a message which is longer than
>> your chosen line limit and thus risk having you not read a message that
>> we spent a significant amount of time writing.
>>
>> Kelwin Wylie
>>
>> On 05/24/2010 09:04 PM, K Randolph wrote:
>>
>>> Apparently you didn’t read my responses, neither to Jim Stinehard nor as a
>>> response to the moderators’ call for suggestions: I have now made it a
>>> policy for myself that if a message extends to more than two to three
>>> screens on my computer, I would neither read it nor respond to it. This
>>> message from you extended five screens, therefore I didn’t read it.
>> ......
>>> Karl W. Randolph.
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