Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 01/24/06 19:39

Mark Parnell wrote:

> Deciding to do something for the good of humanity,
> <marksisson@gmail.com> declared in alt.html:
>
>
>>Ok, final observations. Mr. Parnell is a pretty good guy after all.
>
>
> Why thank you sir.
>
>
>>I read blinky's netiquette, I'll try to be a better netitizen in the
>>future.
>
>
> You're still not quoting the message you are replying to...
>
>
>>The last
>>reader I tried was Agent a few years ago. I never liked it - that's why
>>I embraced the dreaded G2 and landed in this thread :>
>
>
> http://40tude.com/dialog/
>

What might help marksisson is to realize that when one is using a news
client, we only see the single message with the thread displayed like
folders in another pane, unlike Google Groups that takes the whole
thread and builds a webpage with all the messages content laid out in a
list. So if you write a response a statement without quoting the
relevant bits like:

<example message>
That's not true!

-SomeGGUser
</example message>

We do not see what you are referring to without locating it in the
previous message in the thread pane. Threads are not always [rarely]
linear so this may not always be simple but require scrolling and
searching to locate. That may explain why not quoting can draw such ire
among the ranks!

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Take care,

Jonathan
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