Re: tea & chinese characters

Alex wrote:
Lewis Perin wrote:

By the way, would you *please* quote the context you're responding to?
Google Groups can be persuaded to do that.

Sorry, I didn't realize that was your pet peeve. It was pretty obvious
what I was responding to based on the sequence of the messages

That's what you see using Google Groups, a relatively new web frontend for
Usenet. Lew and I and many others are using clients (newsreaders) which
show a thread in the more common tree structure. That usually involves
explicitely selecting the articles you want to read. So to understand what
you're referring to if you don't quote anything would require me to read
the article you're replying to and your article in that exact same order.

And even then, I'd have to guess which part of the article you're referring
to.

Improving your ability to guess from context will help you with the
tricky characters too.

Unneccesarily snippy or testy responses will alienate people who are
making a good-natured effort to help you.

I'd say Lew just wanted to help. Proper quoting is more a service to your
readers, frankly. Courtesy, if you will. It makes for easier and faster
reading.

Hope I could help you understand Usenet better,

Stefan
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