Re: o/t Quoting previous text, or not (was Re: Neighbor Using My Fence

In article <20050731.1040.7235snz@xxxxxxxxx>, Ian says...
>
>youdontknowmenopam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> "bryanska" <BARRELBACK@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1122823450.991730.61050@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Lady,
>>
>>
>> Brian, unless you quote a little bit of the message you are replying to,
>> people aren't going to have the slightest clue what you are going on about.
>
>This seems to be a lamentable feature of using the google newsgroups
>software to do f/ups. I've noticed it in many n/groups over the
>last year or so, and you're right, it does make it almost impossible
>to follow the offender's argument, or understand their comment.
>webtv users do this too, for technical reasons they have no choice, I gather,
>but i long ago did a blanket KILLfile entry on them!
>
>> All I can tell is that you seem to be replying to either a poster named
>> "lady" whose posts I haven't seen yet, or one of the female posters to this
>> thread. <shrugs> If you're trying to get a point across, using standard
>> usenet etiquette will help an awful lot.
>>
>
>The latter I think.
>>From the header, it seems the response is to:
>=====================
>References: <1122519363.569106.232750@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> <9kSGe.5354$W72.4711@trndny05>
>=========================
>I haven't checked this against previous messages, but i
>imagine he may be responding to the poster who
>claimed to be a registered nurse and therefore knew about bodily
>orifices.

There was a poster using a hotmail account who used the name "Lady".

>
>The original article didn't seem unduly interesting to me, but the
>ensuing conflagration has kept me quite amused .....thanks to all for
>brightening
>my week!

:-)

Banty

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