Re: OT Snipping Posts

Josh Hayes wrote:
> Ernest Major <{$to$}@meden.demon.co.uk> wrote in
> news:$hs4wqeT7XVDFwKd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
>
>>In message <3rlc62Fkb9d3U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ex_OWM
>><allthespamyoulike@xxxxxxxxx> writes
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>>>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
>
The rule is (and it's hard to employ) retain only that which is needed to make
sense of your comments, not to give the entire thread's history...

Vide supra for an example.

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John S. Wilkins, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Biohumanities Project
University of Queensland - Blog: evolvethought.blogspot.com
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hypothesis in natural science." Tractatus 4.1122

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