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Re: Debate's current problem (was Re: Uselessness of .debate)
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lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 22 Dec 2000 14:13:41 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Paul Baulch writes:

Once again, I want to urge everyone to keep debates as concise as possible,
and be as _selective_ as possible when choosing what statements to respond
to in our discussions.

  I read your other post, and you made some groovy assertions.  I suppose
I'm as guilty of "point-scoring" as anyone else, but I wasn't consciously
doing it to amass points.  Sometimes it seems to me simply polite to address
each point in turn, and conversely I have at times perceived that
respondents have snipped parts of my posts that they were unable to answer.
  Your admonition about brevity is well-made, though; less *is* more.

    Dave!



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  Re: Debate's current problem (was Re: Uselessness of .debate)
 
Larry Pieniazek wrote in message ... (...) Well, Larry, surely you spend a lot more time reading these newsgroups than most, so perhaps only a few have ventured down to this part of the discussion tree. If you like, you could refer to the post in (...) (24 years ago, 21-Dec-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.admin.general)

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