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Re: Don't Subquote, Dammit

From: rjc@cogsci.edinburgh.ac.uk
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 20:08:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Don't Subquote, Dammit
To: love-hounds@uunet.UU.NET
In-Reply-To: welsh@newshost.dcs's message of 17 Nov 92 14:19:06 GMT

In article , E.Welsh  (e) writes:

e> That isn't enough information to remind me what the original
e> question was. I don't want to have to make an effort to remember or
e> try and find the original post.

More importantly, the way news travles around means that often people
reading a reply may not have seen the original yet, or may have seen
it so long ago that it has been deleted.

You need to quote enough context to make the message make some sense
in and of itself.

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