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16-02-2006, 06:08 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
In article , writes:
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| However it is polite to include it for those of us who still use programs
| which recognise and use it. It's hardly onerous to add it.

And it is impolite to send it to the people who don't.

How?

It is
hardly onerous to remove it.

If your newsreader hasn't already removed it - and the reply which came
after it.

It was and is an utterly and totally brain-dead idea, which flew
in the face of every accepted convention on Email, was incompatible
with MOST editors and MOST mailers, was rejected every time it was
proposed, and was sneaked into an RFC on something else by its
demented author.
^^^^^^

He was Mercadian?

Funny, you seem to be the only one in step - that is, in resisting it,
not in ignoring it.

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