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30 odd irrelevant re-quoted lines about wasps, lions etc
mercifully
removed in accordance with the rules of netiquette.

I doubt if you will be able to persuade David to abide by the
usual
rules of netiquette. Others have tried and failed, so you will
just
have to struggle through his contributions, which are usually
worth
reading, despite the missing context, snip marks and attributions.

I doubt if you will be able to persuade Franz to abide by the
usual
rules of netiquette. Others have tried and failed, so you will just
have
to struggle through his contributions, which are usually badly
edited
and full of irrelevent content

That is an incorrect statement. Perhaps "sometimes" rather than
"usually" might be more nearly corect, don't you think?

despite his frequent

That is an exaggeration. I would be happy to agree with "occasional"
instead of "frequent".

criticism of other
peoples' use of context and editing technique

Yes. I am a mere mortal. I do tend to under-edit others'
contributions and I am the world's champion typomaker.

Franz

"Franz Heymann" wrote in message ...
"Janet Baraclough.." wrote in
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criticism of other
peoples' use of context and editing technique

Yes. I am a mere mortal. I do tend to under-edit others'
contributions and I am the world's champion typomaker.

I don't understand the problem with attributions: I use Google Groups,
which isn't even _intended_ as a newsreader, but it does the
attributions automatically. Surely OE does, too?

Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Janet Baraclough.." wrote
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criticism of other
peoples' use of context and editing technique

Yes. I am a mere mortal. I do tend to under-edit others'
contributions and I am the world's champion typomaker.

I don't understand the problem with attributions: I use Google
Groups,
which isn't even _intended_ as a newsreader, but it does the
attributions automatically. Surely OE does, too?

Yes. It does. I use OE.

Franz

Following up to Franz Heymann

I don't understand the problem with attributions: I use Google
Groups,
which isn't even _intended_ as a newsreader, but it does the
attributions automatically. Surely OE does, too?

Yes. It does. I use OE.

It is however possible to set up your newsreader differently from
the default and remove or substitute the s and have no
attribution or even "some burke said" instead. Although why
anyone would want to do any of this escapes me. Sadly the one
thing you cant do with Microsoft so called software is have a
valid sig file separator as I understand it strips out the
trailing blank of ".. ".
--
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