Re: readonly attribute

Justin McConnell wrote :
Yes, I'm responding to the root post in this thread.

Your posting should restore some context, should refer to something that you are replying to. Avoiding that defeats the purpose of archiving postings in newsgroups and eventual searching of archived posts.

Consider a post which would only say:
"Yes, that's correct." ... but we never get to see what was the question.

Is there a reason
why I should quote the previous post when its right there at the top of
the page?

Not everyone view/read posts in threads with google. Even google recommends to quote material to which you are replying to.

"When you click 'Reply' under 'show options' to follow up an existing article, Google Groups includes the full article in quotes, with the cursor at the top of the article. Tempting though it is to just start typing your message, please STOP and do two things first. Look at the quoted text and remove parts that are irrelevant. Then, go to the BOTTOM of the article and start typing there. Doing this makes it much easier for your readers to get through your post. They'll have a reminder of the relevant text before your comment, but won't have to re-read the entire article.(...)"
Group Help
What's good 'netiquette' when posting to Usenet?
http://groups.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=12348&topic=250


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