Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/13/07 15:51

Steve wrote:
> "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
> news:53d7o3F1s9c2fU1@mid.individual.net...
> | Steve wrote:
> | > "J.O. Aho" <user@example.net> wrote in message
> | > news:53b343F1rcfpjU1@mid.individual.net...
> | > | trashed wrote:
> | > | > Rik wrote:

> | > i hate having to scroll to see if
> | > someone answered in line or at the bottom of a post...especially the
> | > longer the post.
> |
> | Yes, it's bad and against netiquette, to keep the whole original post and
> | give
> | a short answer, you only keep the text you are replying to.
> | Something that is really annoying is that there are news clients that
> | don't
> | filter away post footers, it starts to look really bad when a post has 3-4
> | previous posts footers too.
>
> it is neither bad nor against netiquette. sometimes the whole op is needed
> for context to the response

It's really uncommon you need the whole the whole contest and specially not
footers of the previous posts.


> ...further, if you are in a debate and snip a
> portion of the op, you will surely be accused of doing so on purpose because
> you cannot debate the point because of its correctness.

In most cases it's just trolling and why discuss with them, as no matter what
you say or write they will try to turn everything against you, no matter if
they top-post, quote small portions of the original post.


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//Aho

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