From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,84be9c5a380874d5 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-05-02 07:45:13 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!chcgil2-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD14A98.6CF0B177@raytheon.com> From: Mark Johnson X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: [OT] ettiquite - was gprof with gnat References: <3CCD2328.C5722FC3@epfl.ch> <3CCF8702.A7537851@epfl.ch> <5ee5b646.0205010433.6fc30656@posting.google.com> <3CD0E169.88A260A0@epfl.ch> <5ee5b646.0205020353.650900e5@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:18:00 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 192.27.48.39 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020349173 192.27.48.39 (Thu, 02 May 2002 09:19:33 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 09:19:33 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23410 Date: 2002-05-02T09:18:00-05:00 List-Id: Robert Dewar wrote: > > "Charles Fr. Rey" 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