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- From: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Explain this group
- Message-ID: <BzMzMJ.GIH.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 01:17:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.234107.10542@samba.oit.unc.edu>
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- Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu writes:
- Not to belabor the point, but one should get attributions, especially in a
- newsgroup like alt.QUOTATIONS, correctly; I made the silly above quote,
- NOT columbus@strident.think.com...
-
- No need to get uptight about the issue. Your quotation was duly
- indented an extra level beyond that of the immediately preceding
- person. Personally, I cannot abide the use of "> " as a quotation
- indicator and so I indent, as do many, many others on the Usenet. Any
- one using a reasonably modern newsreader which supports threading and
- show-parent-article operations could have figured it out quite
- trivially.
-