From: L A Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: convenient trimming of quoted text to make points
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 06:04:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <59A10F64.50602@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f5667926-a166-e766-9fb3-ed0bccb2f5d1@gmail.com>
cyg Simple wrote:
> On 8/24/2017 8:36 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>
>> If you can't trim your quoted text, then please stop burying the
>> new stuff on the bottom.
>>
>
> Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed. I see from a google
> search that you've had problems with style in the past even on this list.
>
Maybe I'm one of the few who has RSI and gets irritated by having
to go through extra steps to skip large walls of text.
> List etiquette frowns on both bottom and top posting and warrants to
> interleaving the replies.
>
---
I know of no list where that is commonly practiced.
> Well all and good but you hijacked a thread to bring home a point which
> is in itself just wrong.
>
To selectively quote things in your reply to make your point is the
problem here, since I replied to the original subject, extensively.
It was you who deleted the "on-topic" part of the message to make
your point.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-26 6:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-21 22:30 alias appears to not work inside a called bash script Michel LaBarre
2017-08-21 22:53 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-21 22:55 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash scripty Duncan Roe
2017-08-22 1:01 ` Michel LaBarre
2017-08-22 14:31 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash script Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-22 14:47 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 15:19 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-22 16:46 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 18:25 ` Stephen John Smoogen
2017-08-25 0:37 ` Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING (was: alias appears to not work...) L A Walsh
2017-08-25 14:25 ` Either trim quoted text or STOP BOTTOM POSTING cyg Simple
2017-08-25 16:43 ` Dan Kegel
2017-08-26 6:04 ` L A Walsh [this message]
2017-08-26 15:26 ` convenient trimming of quoted text to make points cyg Simple
2017-09-01 4:54 ` Duncan Roe
2017-09-01 7:37 ` Csaba Raduly
2017-09-01 12:38 ` cyg Simple
2017-08-22 17:08 ` alias appears to not work inside a called bash script cyg Simple
2017-08-22 17:14 ` Eliot Moss
2017-08-22 19:07 ` cyg Simple
2017-08-22 19:11 ` cyg Simple
2017-08-23 19:08 ` Eric Blake
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