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From: Unknown <unknown@unknown.invalid>
Subject: Re: line wrap problem
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 00:34:26 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m08ea.88534$a41.48218@news01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: k8zy93bwcq2.fsf@slsf86.stgl.sel.alcatel.de

Colin Marquardt wrote:

> Pierre Albarede <albanews@free.fr> writes:
> 
>> Attention : the other guy told us, not to post on the other newsgroup
>> comp.emacs.
> 
> Uhm, that's not what Le Wang meant. Look at my signature.

Right.  Le Wang doesn't have a problem with cross-posting to other relevant 
newsgroups.  Le has to look at people top-post all day with brain-dead Notes, 
so this is a especially touchy issue for him.

To elaborate on Piet's reply, as to why it confuses people: the normal flow of 
a discussion in e-mail or newsgroups is you insert the quotation you're 
responding to and write your reply BENEATH it.  Insert some more, write some 
more, so on and so forth.  The discussion becomes impossible to follow if 
some people post before the quotation, in contradiction to the accepted norm.

--
Le

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-20  0:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-18 17:09 line wrap problem S. Eng
2003-03-18 17:22 ` Pierre Albarede
2003-03-18 23:14   ` S. Eng
2003-03-19  0:53     ` Unknown
2003-03-19  9:06     ` Erik Simon
2003-03-19  8:55   ` Pierre Albarede
2003-03-19 16:19     ` Colin Marquardt
2003-03-19 23:19       ` Piet van Oostrum
2003-03-20  0:34       ` Unknown [this message]
2003-03-19  2:25 ` Edward Dodge
2003-03-19 18:11 ` Eric Pement
2003-03-19 22:49   ` S. Eng
2003-03-20  0:42 ` Unknown

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