From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 92349 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 2017 06:04:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 92311 invoked by uid 89); 26 Aug 2017 06:04:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-5.5 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,GIT_PATCH_2,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=wake, Walsh, walsh, hijacked X-HELO: Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org Received: from ishtar.tlinx.org (HELO Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org) (173.164.175.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 26 Aug 2017 06:04:24 +0000 Received: from [192.168.3.12] (Athenae [192.168.3.12]) by Ishtar.sc.tlinx.org (8.14.7/8.14.4/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id v7Q64K04030192 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2017 23:04:22 -0700 Message-ID: <59A10F64.50602@tlinx.org> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2017 06:04:00 -0000 From: L A Walsh User-Agent: Thunderbird MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: convenient trimming of quoted text to make points References: <000001d31acd$108b0340$31a109c0$@rogers.com> <0ac245f1-002b-2993-c1de-e4ddaafa9c7d@cs.umass.edu> <637017a5-b774-cb10-f064-065d20e421b3@cs.umass.edu> <599F710B.1070306@tlinx.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2017-08/txt/msg00239.txt.bz2 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple