Re: [OT] ettiquite - was gprof with gnat

[Mark Johnson <mark_h_johnson@raytheon.com>]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> 
> "Charles Fr. Rey" <charlesfr.rey@epfl.ch> wrote in message news:<3CD0E169.88A260A0@epfl.ch>...
> > I use netscape/UNIX ... :-), so it's not a cro$oft problem ...
> > there's a "Automatically quote original message when replying" option,
> > [snip]
> 
> You guess wrong, turn it off!

[flame on]
Please calm down - I think there's an intolerance virus going around
that causes people to get nasty about proper net etiquette. I see this
kind of response on several newsgroups and believe it is unnecessary. I
suggest a personal note to the OP instead of a public one if you feel a
rebuke is necessary. That I find is an UN common courtesy that should be
present. This rebuke is public to make the point to others (I'll never
change you Robert :-).
[flame off]

Back to the OP. I use Netscape for news as well, but you can see my
posts properly annotated. You can leave the quoting option enabled - to
make it more clear who said what, but take the time to cut the part you
don't need. Put something like [snip] in if you feel uncomfortable to
quote someone else's material in pieces. It also helps if your news
server requires more original text than quoted text - one server I use
regularly enforces this so I got into the habit of short quotes.

  --Mark