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| Keith Thompson 2006-04-08, 6:55 pm |
| "jacko" <jackokring@gmail.com> writes:
> I'm floored. The hubris just keeps flowing, doesn't it? [probably]
Please learn to quote properly.
The sentences "I'm floored. The hubris just keeps flowing, doesn't
it?" were written by Brian Raiter; the "[probably]" was your
response. That form of quoting makes the discussion *very* difficult
to follow. To someone who doesn't know the quoting convention you've
invented, it looks like the text starting with "I'm floored" is yours.
Normally, quoted text has a "> " prefix on each line, quoted quoted
text is prefixed with "> > ", and so forth. Attribution lines, such
as the line
"jacko" <jackokring@gmail.com> writes:
above, make it possible to see who said what.
You're using the groups.google.com interface to Usenet, which is badly
broken and makes proper followups gratuitously difficult.
Fortunately, there's a workaround (though it's not very obvious).
Read <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/> for a full explanation.
And please complain to Google about this.
--
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
San Diego Supercomputer Center <*> <http://users.sdsc.edu/~kst>
We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this.
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