[Foundation-l] How to reply to a mailing list thread

[Ray Saintonge]

Anthony wrote:
> MZMcBride wrote:
>   
>> You're suggesting using a specific, proprietary
>> client (that has all sorts of privacy issues) in order to combat what is,
>> at its core, laziness.
>>     
> Every great software application has, at its core, laziness.


Indeed!  Or perhaps that might be better applied whenever a solution to 
a problem depends mostly on software, or on the use of a convenient 
acronym. It is for the writer's convenience that he uses two letters 
when two words would make things more clear.  The writer's time saved in 
typing fewer characters is trivial in comparison to the combined time 
spent by many readers trying to decipher the acronym.  In a tanglement 
of templates and transclusions lurks a lazy solution. Shortcutting a 
solution deprives the user of the understanding that made that solution 
effective.

Ec