Re: Oswald: A brother's burden

ScottO wrote:
> "Anthony Marsh" <anthony_marsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:xbadnQ0K7Nc4lVbanZ2dnUVZ_scAAAAA@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>   Nothing personal....but if you're responding to a post (and in this
case 
>> a long post) it is necessary to copy the whole thing just to add a
couple 
>> of comments at the end so that readers understand the context.
>> Internet 101.
>>
> 
> No. You're wrong.
> 
> It is not necessary to quote the entire text of the person you respond
to. 
> A quoting should always and first of all clarify the context, enabling
the 
> reader to understand the flow of the thread. A quoting is not ment to 
> re-post the previous article.
> 

People do not know what you are talking about now because you snipped out 
the context.

Almost all newsreader quote the entire message automatically. Name me one 
person who types in by hand each paragraph from the original message and 
replies only to each paragraph in separate posts.


> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
> 
> http://oakroadsystems.com/genl/unice.htm#quote
> 
> The number one rule of quoting is quote judiciously. Quote only what is 
> essential to make it possible for the reader to understand what your 

Great advice for the last Century.

> posting or email message is about. As a rule avoid quoting an entire 
> message (signatures and all). It is not judicious to quote, say, a
hundred 
> lines of discussion just to input a single line of one's own. Proper 
> quoting is a skill. If you are going to quote, devote some time to
working 
> the quote appropriately. Don't be lazy in this respect
> 

Time? You have no right to tell people to waste their time doing things 
the old fa****oned way. Bandwidth is no longer a problem.

> http://lipas.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html
> 
> Q3: Why shouldn't I quote the entire posting that I'm responding to? 
> First, because it wastes people's time by making them download and
scroll 

Sure, at 300 BAUD! As if.

> through what amounts to two complete postings. Second, it wastes network

> resources and disk space on news servers, most of which already have a 
> copy of the original posting. These problems are multiplied when you
quote 
> an entire posting that in turn quotes an entire posting.
> 

Sure, back in 1978!

> http://www.anta.net/misc/nnq/nquote.shtml#Q3
> 
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