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Group: comp.lang.c++ · Group Profile
Author: blangelablangela Date: Apr 16, 2008 22:00
On Apr 15, 2:54Â pm, Ian Collins hotmail.com> wrote:> Lloyd Bonafide wrote:
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>>> *Please* don't quote signatures.
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>> Annoying, huh? Â Of course, one solution is to not attach the superfluous
>> bandwidth wasting signature in the first place, since your name already
>> appears in the header and, in this case, the attribution. Â How many times
>> do you need to see your name in lights when you post? Â
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> If I signed my posting in the body of the message, everyone would have
> to trim it. Â The point of signatures and the signature delimiter is
> proper news readers snip them and format them correctly.
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> This worked fine until google came along and decided to ignore Usenet
> convention. Â Not only does their abomination of an interface not snip
> signatures, it thwarts attempts by its unfortunate users to include a
> correctly formatted one.
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I did not mean to make such a fuss!!!
Only looked back at this thread now that I started several days ago
was quite amazed. I actually though the high number of replies were
discussing how Microsoft handles the syntax error. Foolish me.
I do use google as my usenet browser, so I guess this is why it
happened (my bad ediquette).
When I created this reply, I deleted the last 2 quoted lines that
included Ian's name. Is that what I was supposed to have done in the
first place? I will try to remember to do so in the future.
Again, sorry to have unintentionally created such a fuss.
Bob
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