Netiquette as she is spoke (was RE: Grammar Gang - a nifty blog

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

I guess I got some joy from some of the several posts 
that I visited, but it seemed to lack the crisp, 
straightforward confidence and authority that some 
other sources effect (or is that affect*). 

At any rate, I left a comment to a post that was written 
in 2009, just to see if anybody still lives there. 

Now, I've seen people grumped at, in the past for 
infractions involving commenting on two-year-old 
blog posts, or e-mailing to six-month-old mailing-list 
threads and forum posts. 

I can see a wee bit of a problem if the topic content 
is thoroughly outdated, such as technology that nobody 
uses any more. But, I see no problem with somebody 
reviving a discussion that that died last year, if 
the writer just discovered it (either from random 
browsing or because they have a relevant question) 
and the question in the new writer's mind was not 
addressed.

Obviously, reviving an ancient flame war is not a 
good thing. 

However, as we like to remind each other, everything 
that gets posted to the interweeb is basically 
"forever", so it's unreasonable to expect people 
not to keep stumbling upon old posts and web pages. 

So what's wrong with taking 'em up where they left off? 

What is the big advantage (other than avoiding some 
people yelling at you) to starting a fresh thread... 
only to have somebody send you a link to the old 
thread, regardless... hmm? 

(* If the blog is still alive and the moderator 
approves my comment, you'll see the jest.)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Monique Semp
> Sent: January-26-12 12:10 PM
> To: TechWR-L
> Subject: Grammar Gang - a nifty blog
> 
> Ran across this blog today when I surfed on âwhat is nominalization in
> english grammarâ: http://thegrammargang.blogspot.com/
> 
> (The post I landed on is this:
> http://thegrammargang.blogspot.com/2009/04/style-tips-avoiding-over-
> nominalization.html.)
> 
> It doesnât look like itâs a very active blog, but I found it quite
> interesting and helpful.
> 
> Happy reading,
> -Monique



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