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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
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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.