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Subject: Re: Back to basics: Quoting

Author: David Rasmussen

Date: 09:58:30 12/10/02

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On December 10, 2002 at 12:06:11, Bob Durrett wrote:

>
>Drat!  Something told me there was a problem, but I just couldn't figure out
>what it was.  : )
>
>On a more serious note:  Sometimes it's not easy to decide what's relevant and
>what's not.  Besides, third parties need some way to review the preceeding
>conversation, for context, without having to go back and read the entire thread.
> So a reasonable compromise seems indicated.
>

Of course. I don't use any hard rules myself, when editing. In fact, I leave in
a little more than required, mostly. But I think it's better than a little less
than required. In the extreme cases I was primarily talking about, it is often
very easy to remove at least 75% of the quoted material without loss of context.

/David



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