Re: bad judgment or bad luck?

Alan Malloy wrote:
On 5/9/2008 4:03 PM, CBFalconer wrote:
Your answers are virtually unintelligible, because of the faulty
quoting mechanism. If you must use google, please read the
following, and the referenced URL.

If you want to post a followup via groups.google.com, ensure
you quote enough for the article to make sense. Google is only
an interface to Usenet; it's not Usenet itself. Don't assume
your readers can, or ever will, see any previous articles.

Henry does not use Google for RGB. Google has very tell-tale quote marks, and his are totally different. Henry has, I suspect, gone to the work of snipping out what he thinks is not relevant. You may not agree with his choices about what to take out, but judicious snipping can be a huge boon in a long thread, and criticizing someone for making the effort is not very nice.

From the headers of Henry's posts, he certainly seems to use Google, e.g.
Organization: http://groups.google.com
X-Trace: posting.google.com 1210344138 12148 127.0.0.1 (9 May 2008 14:42:18 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@xxxxxxxxxx

I for one find it much harder to follow a thread if people quote others without using a quote marker.

Apparently one of the links in the Google interface does not offer quotes and attributions, so users tend to copy and paste others' words without the conventional '>' quote marker. Pointing someone to the link that follows the normal USENET conventions is helpful.
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