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Delurking to beg: for crying out loud. It's hard enough to keep up with
this list for a casual reader with a life, even without the current trolling. I
think we've found the equivalent of the interminable troll threads on
sci.math about whether 0.99999... = 1 or not. For the record, calling
someone a "snivelling despot" is one of the nastiest things I've read
here, however many "goodness graciouses" and "doth protesteths" you dress
it up with.

Listen, imagine you had a machine that displays the interval, in cents,
between 2 instruments. As one stays put and the other gets closer, the
machine should read 10..9..8..7..6.. cents, 5..4..3..2..1... and then
what? It should explode?? It should turn off?? No, it should display "0",
of course. When the two instruments are at exactly the same pitch there's
an interval of zero cents between them, BY DEFINITION. If you have $23.74
in your bank account and you take out $23.74, you have a balance of $0.00.
You might *also* choose to phrase that as "I have no balance", and that
sounds a little odd to me, but ok, you can say it - still, so what?
Doesn't change that you don't phone up your bank and call them crazy when
they send you a statement showing a balance of $0.00.

And while I'm complaining: can everyone please SNIP the parts of
emails you're quoting, especially signature lines and advertisements,
that aren't necessary to your reply.

Hi Jeremy,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jeremy Targett" <jeremy.targett@...>
wrote:

> And while I'm complaining: can everyone please SNIP the
> parts of emails you're quoting, especially signature lines
> and advertisements, that aren't necessary to your reply.

I most emphatically second that request! Thanks for delurking
to suggest it.

-monz
http://tonalsoft.com
Tonescape microtonal music software

Very pleased to see the request for snipping away
unnecessary text when replying. Would someone,
anyone, be so kind as to tell me how it's done? I've
wanted to snip for several years. Thanks in
anticipation.

-- Mark Rankin

--- monz <monz@tonalsoft.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeremy,
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> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Jeremy Targett"
> <jeremy.targett@...>
> wrote:
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> > And while I'm complaining: can everyone please
> SNIP the
> > parts of emails you're quoting, especially
> signature lines
> > and advertisements, that aren't necessary to your
> reply.
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> I most emphatically second that request! Thanks for
> delurking
> to suggest it.
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>
> -monz
> http://tonalsoft.com
> Tonescape microtonal music software
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on 5/30/06 9:30 AM, Mark Rankin <markrankin95511@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Very pleased to see the request for snipping away
> unnecessary text when replying. Would someone,
> anyone, be so kind as to tell me how it's done? I've
> wanted to snip for several years. Thanks in
> anticipation.

One deletes such things by the same method used to delete something stupid
one has written. ;) Usually this involves selecting the offending text
and hitting the delete or backspace key.

-Kurt

Can you elaborate via step-by-step instructions Kurt? It took me a while to
figure it out myself. :)

Oz.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Bigler" <kkb@breathsense.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 30 May�s 2006 Sal� 22:35
Subject: Re: [tuning] snipping quotes in posts

> on 5/30/06 9:30 AM, Mark Rankin <markrankin95511@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Very pleased to see the request for snipping away
> > unnecessary text when replying. Would someone,
> > anyone, be so kind as to tell me how it's done? I've
> > wanted to snip for several years. Thanks in
> > anticipation.
>
> One deletes such things by the same method used to delete something stupid
> one has written. ;) Usually this involves selecting the offending text
> and hitting the delete or backspace key.
>
> -Kurt
>
>

On 5/30/06, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@ozanyarman.com> wrote:
> Can you elaborate via step-by-step instructions Kurt? It took me a while to
> figure it out myself. :)

It all depends what mail client you're using. I'm using gmail's web
interface right now, so when I clicked "reply to all" it started with
your whole email with a '>' before each line. I didn't need to quote
all that so I selected it (I used shift and pagedown, but you can use
the mouse) and pressed "delete".

Keenan

on 5/30/06 3:27 PM, Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 5/30/06, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@ozanyarman.com> wrote:
>> Can you elaborate via step-by-step instructions Kurt? It took me a while to
>> figure it out myself. :)
>
> It all depends what mail client you're using. I'm using gmail's web
> interface right now, so when I clicked "reply to all" it started with
> your whole email with a '>' before each line. I didn't need to quote
> all that so I selected it (I used shift and pagedown, but you can use
> the mouse) and pressed "delete".

Yes, Keenan has pretty much said it. For more detail than that, best if you
tell us first what interface you are using, i.e. either what web interface,
or what operating system and email program.

The only *actual* content in my original remark was that there is no
difference between deleting quoted material and deleting any other material
one has written. But some people are managing to use email lists with very
little computer experience, so perhaps even the idea of selecting text is
unfamiliar. In that case tell us "where you're at" and I'm sure sure it can
all be elucidated.

-Kurt

I was attempting to be sarcastic.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kurt Bigler" <kkb@breathsense.com>
To: <tuning@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: 31 May�s 2006 �ar�amba 4:46
Subject: Re: [tuning] snipping quotes in posts

> on 5/30/06 3:27 PM, Keenan Pepper <keenanpepper@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 5/30/06, Ozan Yarman <ozanyarman@ozanyarman.com> wrote:
> >> Can you elaborate via step-by-step instructions Kurt? It took me a
while to
> >> figure it out myself. :)
> >
> > It all depends what mail client you're using. I'm using gmail's web
> > interface right now, so when I clicked "reply to all" it started with
> > your whole email with a '>' before each line. I didn't need to quote
> > all that so I selected it (I used shift and pagedown, but you can use
> > the mouse) and pressed "delete".
>
> Yes, Keenan has pretty much said it. For more detail than that, best if
you
> tell us first what interface you are using, i.e. either what web
interface,
> or what operating system and email program.
>
> The only *actual* content in my original remark was that there is no
> difference between deleting quoted material and deleting any other
material
> one has written. But some people are managing to use email lists with
very
> little computer experience, so perhaps even the idea of selecting text is
> unfamiliar. In that case tell us "where you're at" and I'm sure sure it
can
> all be elucidated.
>
> -Kurt
>
>