Usenetiquette (was: using "!!" in "c")

pemo wrote:
> "Keith Thompson" <kst-u@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
.... snip ...
>>
>> (A number of attributions were snipped. I wrote the text starting
>> with "So is (value, 0)", pemo wrote the text starting with "What's the
>> point here?", and Flash Gordon wrote the text starting with "I believe
>> that Keith was". Please leave attributions in place. Thanks.)
>
> After this reply, I'll try and remember to simply enter any further
> replies I make to posts at the bottom of any existing text - and
> then let others either ignore my posts, or else figure out to what
> it is I might be referring - seems like I'll never get the hang of
> this process, and if I'm black-flagged, knobbled, f**ked up the ass
> [or whatever the proper 'in the know' usenet term is] by some for
> not posting correctly, at least I won't be committing the ultimate
> sin: top posting.

The other sin is failing to snip. The count of '>' marks on the
left keeps track of the attributee (with a one-off error :-) You
should also try to keep your line width under 72 (I use 67).
Notice how I have removed attribution lines only for material
totally excised. See the following references.

http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html

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