[NNTP] Re: MODE READER

Clive D.W. Feather clive at demon.net
Thu Nov 11 08:56:29 PST 2004


Ken Murchison said:
>>>I did not say the above comment.  Please attribute your quotes correctly.
>> Count the arrows. They were attributed correctly.
> Nope.  The statement above was made by Andrew.

Oh, good grief.

In the above:
>>>    is Mark
>>     is Clive
>      is Ken
As far as I and many (most) Usenet posters are concerned, this is a correct
attribution. Stuff with one arrow is the attributed person; stuff with more
than one is material that person quoted.

Similarly, in the original post I attributed Mark because I was quoting his
post, but some of the text in my post began ">>", because it was Mark
quoting Andrew.

Happy now?

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