On 31 Jan 2012, at 1:24, steven hart wrote: > Hey Max, Ive seen this here before & never known what <SNIP> means, can u > fill me in on this one, it always has that look like someone is being rude, am i > right ? : ) > > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:04 AM, David Nicholson <d.avensis@virgin.net>wrote: > > > Max Withers wrote:- > > <SNIP>.....I must say that the I find the inability of some of our new > > members to use google or spell............<SNIP> Into the breach! <snip> is merely a way to indicate that text has been elided. No pejorative value at all. I prefer to just use diaeresis ... instead. If I'm responding point by point, then I put each response after a snippet of text, just enough to give context, and don't bother indicating elision. Very early in my online career, I used <snip> a lot, but abandoned the use after a short while. I suppose it's still useful once in a while, but I can't remember when I last used it. Incidentally, in my previous message I wrote > Anybody whining that they don't understand is just being lazy! On reading over what I wrote, I realized that it sounds like I was criticizing Steven Hart. That wasn't my intention and I apologize both to Steven and to all PBS list subscribers for giving that impression. I was thinking of the real doofuses out there whom you cross paths with sometimes - the kind of people who don't know anything and stubbornly refuse to even try to learn anything new because they already know everything they need to know. Not! There's actually a formal name for something very close to that description: "Dunning-Kruger syndrome". Wikipedia has an article iirc. -- Rodger Whitlock Victoria, British Columbia, Canada Z. 7-8, cool Mediterranean climate