I agree. Even when you start the thread, you can miss things if you only read from your ping list. Better to read the thread in context.
How did I come to that conclusion? Very early on, I realized that if I only replied to what was addressed to myself, I was splitting the conversation into groups, whereas one needs to understand the entire input. It took a little while to figure out, but became obvious when I saw that people seemed to be asking the same questions over and over again on the same thread - that happens when you haven’t read previous replies. It taught me to read an entire thread before I stuck my nose in.
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Josh Lang’s Photos of the Fuddy Crash Are Not the Same Plane
Butterdezillion’s Blog ^ | 2-23-14 | Butterdezillion
Posted on Monday, 24 February 2014 10:09:07 AM by butterdezillion
The photos of the Loretta Fuddy Cessna crash that Josh Lang provided to the media? They weren’t of the same plane. The plane that crashed with Fuddy in it had a window between the door and the tail; Lang’s photos don’t. (I’ve got photos at my blog and in the first post I’ll post them so you can compare the 2 planes)
Lang apparently had photos of a DIFFERENT plane ditching in the water and gave them to the media, claiming they were of this crash, and apparently the media didn’t check out the genuineness of the photos...
Now why would Lang do that? Why would he post images of the area with no passengers or anything else in the water ANYWHERE, rather than taking photos of what was actually there and giving those to the media?