Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site teklds.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!teklds!hankb From: hankb@teklds.UUCP (Hank Buurman) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Quoting in SF-Lovers Message-ID: <1184@teklds.UUCP> Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 20:28:11 EDT Article-I.D.: teklds.1184 Posted: Fri Oct 25 20:28:11 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 19:55:46 EDT References: <178@caip.RUTGERS.EDU> <499@rti-sel.UUCP> Reply-To: hankb@teklds.UUCP (Hank Buurman) Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 19 Summary: In article <499@rti-sel.UUCP> wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly) writes: >Lighten up. There are people who abuse the quoting of articles they >are replying to, but in many cases you NEED the context to understand >what the hell is going on. The decision as to how much context is >needed is subjective, and some people are better at making good >decisions of this kind than others. We need to REMIND each other from >time to time if we're annoying each other, but have a heart: we're all >human and make mistakes from time to time. And we also disagree on >what's right and wrong; I personally am annoyed at the periodic flames >condemning ALL quoting of articles in a reply. It's not an absolute >thing, folks; there's a time and a place for a quote. Let's try to >recognize each other's human weaknesses and extend the same courtesy >to each other in our net postings that we do in our face-to-face >interactions with other people. > > -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly Bravo! Thanks Bill.