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Posted by Blinky the Shark on 01/25/06 08:12
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 15:21:58 +1100, Mark Parnell wrote:
> Deciding to do something for the good of humanity, dorayme
> <doraymebutuse777insubjectline@optusnet.com.au> declared in alt.html:
>
>> Mark, can you please sort this one out. Look at the posts concerned and
>> judge the situation. And tell me and Blinky what you find.
>
> You're both right. :-)
>
>> All you have to do is count 'greater than' signs,
>
> No '>'s in front of what Blinky wrote, so he's right - it wasn't a quote.
> And there was nothing in his post except that one paragraph. But you are
> also right - he should not have included the attribution line (or even
> better should have quoted some of what you wrote). And since he wouldn't
> be the first to quote someone without adding greater than signs (or some
> other symbol) in front of the quoted text, I think you're a bit ahead on
> this one, dorayme.
That attribution line was an accident, yes. My bad, on that. But since
the gt count shows that it wasn't pointing to any of dorayme's text, it
doesn't matter. Sloppy, yes -- I was going for not only the humor of my
response, but within that also the NO QUOTING idea that the thread had
been involved with. It was an attempt to parody the "gestalt" response
idea. (I *think* that was going on in this thread, anyway.) The
attribution *to nothing* was sloppy but only confusing to someone who
doesn't understand attribution in general. So far, that seems to be
limted to dorayme.
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