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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 23 Jul 1998.
Re: Damn complete quiting

Re: Damn complete quiting

Colin Douthwaite (cfb...@southern.co.nz) schrieb:
> Henning 'Faroul' Peters <far...@beyond.kn-bremen.de> wrote:
> >Colin Douthwaite (cfb...@southern.co.nz) schrieb:
> >> > [101 lines of HTML quoted]
> >> Excuse me...what is all this garbage I'm seeing when I read this post
> >> in Free Agent?
> >Is it really necessary to quote this complete? Damn! 50% of a.a-a is
> >quoting of complete articles just to say "That's good" or similar...
> I did it quite deliberately...because I wanted to you to see exactly
> what garbage is appearing on my screen...it may not be appearing on
> your newsreader...and it surely cannot be visible to the original
> poster of the garbage?

Hm, 101 lines is quite deliberately?

Yes, I use tin and tin doesn't display any html (I saw that as garbage,
too).

> > Any other newsgroup would flame those posters...
> So you flamed me!  *8-)

Your posting was just "randomly" choosed - it's not to you only but to any
other people quoting nearly anything...

> > PLEASE, cut down quotings!!!
> I leave in quoted material when I think it is essential for readers
> to understand the response I am making.

This is the sense and usage of quoting. But IMO 10 lines (instead of about
100) would have been enough to show anybody the garbage (and IMO nearly
anybody could have a look at the original posting, anyway).

> In this message I've quoted all _your_ original posting.

This was ok (as my posting wasn't that long, anyway)

> It would have not made much sense if I had only quoted this one
> line for example...

Yes, but 100 lines? (see above :)

> BTW it is the Flaming Season right now with huge Solar flares. :-)

BOFH, todays excuse?


	Faroul
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            Henning `Faroul' Peters  -  far...@beyond.kn-bremen.de
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From: far...@beyond.kn-bremen.de (Henning 'Faroul' Peters)
Subject: Re: Damn complete quiting
Date: 1998/07/23
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References: <35B...@bellsouth.net> <35B...@bellsouth.net> <35b...@news.southern.co.nz> <far...@beyond.kn-bremen.de> <901...@mnementh.southern.co.nz>
Organization: Kommunikationsnetz Bremen e.V.
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