Re: Steve Mills and top posting

Rory Parle wrote:
> On that topic: How many people actually bother to snip signatures from
> the posts they're quoting? I also tend to trim extra-long
> attributions[0], re-wrap any text I'm quoting[1], remove as much text as
> I can from the quoted message without losing context, and post my
> response to each part of the post directly under that part rather than
> all in one block at the end.

Well, you'll see exactly how I like to do things. I don't tend to snip
signatures, because I feel it's appropriate to keep the name, especially
if I post after it. If the point I want to reply to is in the middle,
then I'll probably snip the rest of it.

As for rewrapping, I try to keep all the >s in line with the rest, but
because I use the IJDB portal, this might not come out right when I do.
It becomes a hassle when I want to snip out half a paragraph and it messes
everything up. Although hopefully, each separate point should be a new
paragraph so this shouldn't be a problem.

I snip out the "posted via www.jugglingdb.com" part as well as there's
normally a load of paragraphs and such which just lengthen the post.

> And my signature is separated from the rest of the post by the standard
> Usenet signature separator
> <newline><newline><hyphen><hyphen><space><newline>, which means that
> many clients will automatically remove it when replying to my posts.
> Footnotes go below this line so that they are removed too.

I don't adopt this signature tradition either, maybe because I like to
keep my sig in all the following posts, helps gets hits on the website,
but I'll only have my sig once in a post (that is if I reply, someone
replies to me, and I reply again, if it hasn't been snipped, I would).

Oh, and I also try (occasionally) to say <snip> when I do take things out,
depends really on the context and whether I'm trying to get to a point.
Which quite frankly, in a USENET group, we're not paying by the character,
are we now?

Chiok

www.gravityvomit.co.uk
<snipped Mr. Parle's sig>

----== posted via www.jugglingdb.com ==----

.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: RFD: create moderated newsgroup uk.rec.cycling.moderated
    ... Snip ... Your "sig" still is not set so that it does not reappear in quoted posts. ... The signature is automatically attached to all documents that you post or mail using Agent. ...
    (uk.rec.cycling)
  • Re: initialising a vector of strings...
    ... | // for type deduction: it returns a reference to an array of N chars. ... | a compile-time constant. ... It seems to me that the signature in the declaration ...
    (alt.comp.lang.learn.c-cpp)
  • Re: Hello everyone
    ... the body of your message and your signature. ... leave in some attributions as to who posted what and snip out ... Google are evil and are ruining usenet. ...
    (uk.rec.cars.modifications)
  • Re: Deluge!
    ... I'm not a fan of children's novels, but giving away the ending of any story ... in your signature is a very poor form of humour. ...
    (uk.transport.london)
  • Re: OT Budweiser
    ... that appears above my signature. ... Sadly since the guy who didn't snip the sig is using Outhouse Excuse, ...
    (rec.autos.sport.f1)