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Subject: 
Re: LDraw not to sell CD-ROM at Kidvention in July & Misc CD-ROM issues
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Date: 
Fri, 16 Jun 2000 11:14:41 GMT
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tim@zacktron.com (Tim Courtney) writes:

Perhaps what I meant and should have said would be more along the
lines of having the person sign their name instead.

Personally, I have never been offended by anyone not typing in their
name below the article.  After all, the contents of the article is
what is important, and the relevant information about the author is
(normally) in the headers anyway.


I'd agree.  I like to intersperse my comments between quoted text,
and kill the irrelevant stuff.  Sometimes depending on the length
of the message and all, I'll write a reply before a full quote, but
not very often.

In my opinion, quoting text when following up is mostly useful for
making it clear what part of the parent article you are commenting.
This makes the article much easier to read and understand.

If you are writing the reply on the top (or on the very bottom), while
quoting all the parent article, the information about which part of
the parent article you are commenting is completely lost, and you
might as well refrain from quoting anything at all.  After all, the
contents of the parent article is easily accessed by a keystroke on
sensible client software.

Fredrik



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  Re: LDraw not to sell CD-ROM at Kidvention in July & Misc CD-ROM issues
 
(...) Not if you're reading the groups via email, like me[1]. I like at least something quoted so I know which article someone is replying to... --Bram 1) subscribing to 50+ groups by email is a lot...I read with one finger on the delete key... Bram (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: LDraw not to sell CD-ROM at Kidvention in July & Misc CD-ROM issues
 
(...) I see your point. It does depend on if the one-liner is an intelligent statement/question or if its ill-phrased and adds little value. (...) Perhaps what I meant and should have said would be more along the lines of having the person sign (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jun-00, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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