Re: AUTHOR EVENT

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From: Gary James
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 00:00

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jim patterson wrote:
> 
> This is an interesting point because it has just recently been brought
> up to me by a scot that it was bad net manners to trim a post.  On the
> same day, i saw a message on another similar Internationally
> subscribed group that said to NOT trim the posts down to what you were
> specifically referring to in your reply was bad netiquette.  Hence i
> guess it is a case of 'when in rome' where rome becomes the NG of
> currency. Personally i think it is pretty silly to have page after
> page of quoted material in a discussion to get down to a 2 line
> comment which the reader is not sure what applies to.
> 
> On 23 Oct 2000 01:41:51 GMT, Ze Ninguem <solomon@angband.org> wrote:
> 
> >And anyway, are you just averse to trimming quoted text and sigs, or do
> >you simply not know how to do it?

I have tried to trim a few posts on some of the large political groups and
I get : "You SOB, you edited out my meaning ! ". 

But if you guys at GIT prefer it, I shall trim when posting to this group.

Gary

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From: Gary James <cnjames@homemail.com>
Subject: Re: AUTHOR EVENT
Date: 2000/10/23
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