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Old February 23rd 12, 04:00 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
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Bill in Co wrote:

Mayayana wrote:

I take the approach that since I'm using a modern GUI
and people can easily glance at earlier posts for reference, ...


There is the crux of his argument. One, he doesn't care that readers of
his posts must move OUT of the message to look elsewhere to trace who
said what. Two, he thinks the posts he quotes will be present in
someone else's NNTP client (see my reply to Char as to why those posts
may be missing which means NO REFERENCE is available if not provided as
attribution lines within the message).

I guess I don't get what you are talking about. I open OE and try to read
each thread individually in that one window, as one would expect, and can't
see the attributions. Are you suggesting we have to open several panes or
windows just to follow each thread with attributions? THAT seems a bit
primitive to me. :-)


Mayayana wants to present a style to exhibit a personality. He has no
rational argument for omitting attributions other than his want for a
style that's different. He just wants to be different. Of course, this
could be trollish deliberation to instill argument in that he dishonors
netiquette with which he had no participation in defining.

If he doesn't want to include attributions (which he must manually trim
out since his newsreader includes them) then he shouldn't bother to
quote any posts to which he replies. After all, he claims you can go
looking elsewhere to see the threading of the posts leading to his reply
so obviously the same readers that have to look elsewhere for threading
info can also look in those other posts to see their content - assuming,
as he does mistakeningly, that those other posts are available to the
readers of his posts.

If he doesn't want to attribute the quoted content then don't bother to
include any quoted content. With his "modern" GUI built on the old NNTP
standards that help to support the lowest-common-denominator feature set
so EVERYONE (not just him) can participate and with assumption of
perfect and immediate peering across a worldwide mesh network of NNTP
servers, he should just assume that all those posts he would've quoted
are already there in the reader's client so, like attributions, all that
quoting he does is superfluous.

If you don't attribute a quote then don't bother including it. Quoting
with attribution means you are pretending that content is yours.
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