snipped-for-privacy@76.usenet.us.com hath wroth:
Close. I go down the list of articles chronologically. I start reading. If I get turned off in the first few sentences, I hit "next" and I'm on to the next article. I rarely look at the subjects mostly because very few subject lines are worth reading. They're usually something useless like "Help me" or "Linksys doesn't work". However, in the interest of global harmony and averting another endless discussion over such trivia, I have setup my various readers to display the subject line along with the text. Whether I actually remember to read the subject line is currently indeterminate.
It's taken me many years to conglomerate a workable combination of humor, technical data, my never humble opinion, and subtle criticism. Just when I think I have optimized the magic combination of ingredients for all occasions, you appear and call it "chaff". I'm crushed.
If I just delivered the answer, that would be terminally boring. That's often done by many knowledgeable people with a one-line reply. The answer is correct, but there's no explanation, no URL's, no background, no anecdotes, no opinions, and no examples. I like to add these to my answers, which makes them complete and generally useful. I don't bury the techy stuff among the "chaff", but I do mix well before serving.