Re: same *** marriage petition (Canada) .

"Marvin Edwards" <nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Gene Douglas" <genedoug@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > And others aren't obligated to start searching a thread to find the
> relevant material. <
>
> It is not my job to express your thoughts. That remains your job. There
is
> no reason to repost paragraphs from your post that I'm not responding to
in
> my post. There is no reason to post sentences within paragraphs if I
have
> nothing to say about them.

That's the whole point.  I already have expressed my thoughts.  You go to
extra work to remove them.  And what you respond to has been removed by
the
time you do.
>
> And I'll drop phrases that are non-essential, especially if they are
> insinuations or insults. For example, "You jerk, don't you know that x =
y"
> would become ">... x = y <" followed by my explanation of why x does not
> equal y.
>
>