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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!news!columbus
- From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: Explain this group
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:16:28
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 21
- Message-ID: <COLUMBUS.92Dec22101628@strident.think.com>
- References: <1992Dec21.234107.10542@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- <BzMzMJ.GIH.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: strident.think.com
- In-reply-to: Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 01:17:33 GMT
-
- In article <BzMzMJ.GIH.2@cs.cmu.edu> Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu gives a
- lame excuse for his sloppiness in attributing quotes.
-
- Mike Oniffrey 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...
-
- And Karl Kleinpaste replies:
-
- 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.
-
- As you can see, there is no difficulty in attributing quotations correctly,
- without using ">". All it takes is a modicum of effort.
-