Re: When following up on post, where to put followup? (gravity)

On news.software.readers, in
<42ee1275$0$75456$dbd43001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Frank Slootweg"
wrote:

> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Marc L. wrote:
>> > Blinky the Shark <no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
>> > news:slrndeqncq.7pu.no.spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>> >> Blinky left it in on purpose, this time.
>> > Okay, sure, I believe you.
>> Thanks. It was only a third of a line, and leaving it in
>> allowed to make sense the small paragraph I interposted into.
> Also it is a good thing to mark that one has deleted
> stuff. (I normally mark with "[deleted]".) Many people don't do
> that and their silent snipping often leads to confusion or even
> (accidental or intentional) misrepresentations. If Blinky had
> done that (marking), then the mark would have been about as big
> as the deleted part, so why do it?

I agree, Frank. I have a vi macro that inserts "<snip>" with
a keystroke.

>
> [As one can see, I do silently snip signatures.]

Me too. They aren't part of the article you are responding to.

AC

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