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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Quoting in SF-Lovers
Message-ID: <499@rti-sel.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 12:20:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: rti-sel.499
Posted: Wed Oct 23 12:20:32 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 25-Oct-85 03:45:23 EDT
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Reply-To: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, NC
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Summary: 

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