I don't point anymore either. BUT --- it is a good tool early on when one is having trouble with being too quick on the trigger on calls. And it doesn't look horrible. I was not proposing that we ALL go do this, or even that OP should do it indefinitely. I was proposing it to help him get into the habit of that extra half-second that eventually becomes second nature.
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