Re: OT Snipping Posts

Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote in
news:$hs4wqeT7XVDFwKd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

> In message <3rlc62Fkb9d3U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ex_OWM
> <allthespamyoulike@xxxxxxxxx> writes
>>Most Usenet groups I hang out in expect people replying to posts to
>>snip everything in the original post except the bit(s) they are
>>directly replying to; people who don't do that often indeed get flamed
>>for it.
>>
>>I notice here that many posters here quote the entire original post,
>>even if they are just replying to one or two specific points, or
>>adding a 'one liner' at the end. Is that regarded as standard practice
>>here ?
>>
>>
> Some people participating on talk.origins practice the dishonest
> technique of selectively removing quoted material so as to hide the
> true content of the message they are responding to. I suspect that
> others refrain from any snippage to avoid the slightest appearance of
> that misdeed.

Well, they should get over it.

It's bad enough I have to waste time wading through Fr*d's stuff without
having to don flippers and dive into a succession of 250-line plus
articles consisting of at most TWO new lines of text.

In my moderation duties, I email authors who do this crap and sternly
advise them to cut that *** out. The previous articles are a matter of
record: if someone makes an egregious cut, they'll get called on it.
Have some mercy on the readership, though: when the lines bump up over
200, and steadily nudge higher, with nothing more than successive "Nuh
uh!" and "Yuh huh!", do us all a favor and STFU.

-JAH, GRUMPY OLD MAN

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