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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC,SUBJ_ALL_CAPS autolearn=no 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: 2002-05-07 10:15:11 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!hub1.nntpserver.com!hub1.meganetnews.com!newsfeed.sjc.globix.net!cyclone-sf.pbi.net!151.164.30.35!cyclone.swbell.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CD80AFF.772FDF34@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: WAY OFF TOPIC 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> <3CD237A7.B91E6F32@epfl.ch> <3cd2816f$1@news.cadence.com> <3CD6A43A.657623F8@despammed.com> <3CD7C043.B101F4A4@epfl.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 12:12:31 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: dfw-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1020791538 151.168.144.162 (Tue, 07 May 2002 12:12:18 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 12:12:18 CDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:23656 Date: 2002-05-07T12:12:31-05:00 List-Id: > > And a newsgroup is not a private communication, anyway. > > No ? please, tell me what it is ... I consider it is a kind of private With e-mail, the recipient know what he sent and doesn't need it quoted back, except maybe sometimes as a memory jogger. With Usenet, the reader may have never seen the previous post. Absolutely. I do it all the time. Gabriel Cadwallider posted: blah, blah, yadda, yadda, for thirty lines and then somewhere it says Has anyone ever done CPR? and follows that by twenty more quoted lines, not to mention the signature blocks of six prior posters...... How long would it take to figure out do _what_ all the time? What percentage of people would bother to try? -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau