From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Excessive quoting (was: What Mac developers think of Ada !)
Date: 1999/11/02
Date: 1999-11-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vn0fc$2ae$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7vmjde$olr$1@nnrp1.deja.com
In article <7vmjde$olr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>,
Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> wrote:
> messages. It is a prevalent disease throughout usenet, and
> apparently the result of a flood of relatively new users
> who either don't know the conventions or (hard to believe
> but true in some cases) don't know how to do partial quoting.
It is enough to make one pine for the days of "fascist" newsreaders that
refused to post anything with more quoted material than new text or with
a signature more than 3 lines long.
These days I don't think newsreader authors care at all about
helping Usenet itself. For instance, with the Deja interface, the entry
window is so small that its quite easy to accidentally post a ton of
irrelevent quoted text (sigh).
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T.E.D.
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-30 0:00 What Mac developers think of Ada ! Siow Wey Hua
1999-10-29 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-10-30 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
1999-10-30 0:00 ` David Starner
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
1999-10-31 0:00 ` Nick Roberts
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Michael Smith
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
1999-11-02 0:00 ` Excessive quoting (was: What Mac developers think of Ada !) Florian Weimer
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