Re: Dpreview decries the high cost of in-lens I.S.

Neil Harrington wrote:
"Bob Larter" <bobbylarter@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4affa482$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Neil Harrington wrote:
If you follow the little angle brackets more carefully, you will see that no actual comment is attributed to you, only the fact that you were quoting others. It's just the way this system works.
When you reply to someone's post, but are only responding to older quoted material, it's good practice to snip out that person's attribution. (Even though it does interfere with the level of quoting.)

I would have if I'd noticed. Where there are several nested posts and I'm replying to some deeper level of post, I sometimes just don't pay attention. Mea culpa,

It's an easy mistake to make.

but I really don't think it's something worth getting one's panties in a bunch about. Usually in fact I try to trim posts to the relevant parts rather than requoting tons of stuff that has no bearing on what I'm saying, but sometimes that is too time-consuming and I skip it.

Ditto.

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