[FRIAM] Footnotes in email messages: WAS OK. That's funny.

[Gary Schiltz]

I don't intend to trash either Glen or Jon, but I want to express my hearty
agreement with you (Nick) about footnotes (as well as endnotes). For
someone like myself with ADD/OCD tendencies, I just can't skip past one of
these damn things without chasing said footnote/endnote. Since I read
everything electronically these days, it's a major pain to get back to
where I was, especially in PDF documents without good navigational
facilities. And embedded URLs in web content? I think I've done a depth
first search of the entire internet by now and haven't ever popped the
stack back to the original document I was trying to read in the first
place. As you said, PURE EVIL! Tongue firmly in cheek :-)

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 2:25 PM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now Glen has contaminated Jon with the style of putting footnotes with
> reference symbols in email messages, I have to protest.  Footnoting as a
> sinful, lazy, nasty, indulgent, stuffy academic habit that should be
> stomped out wherever it emerges, no matter how ingenious and whimsical the
> reference symbols.
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> But I love you both like brothers฿
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> Nick
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> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] OK. That's funny.
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> Further, if we only take what we will agree to in the long-run as truths,
> then it is very likely that we all aptly believe things that can never be
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