Re: Headset cheap fix - works

jim beam wrote:

> Tim McNamara wrote:
>> Atribute the text you're replying to the author.  Your newsreader
>> should do this automatically (e.g., the attribution line above, which
>> is "jim beam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:").  You've made several attacking
>> posts which do not include the attributions- oddly enough, all of them
>> being text from posts by Jobst.  Your last post, from which I took the
>> above text, had a correct attribution to me.  If you're going to
>> attack someone, at least be honest and up front about who it is.
>
> etiquette?  that's easily fixed and is different from cowardice.
> would have thought use of a threaded news reader made it obsolete.

Not at all; it's inconvenient to have to re-retrieve parent articles just
to see to whom one is replying, even if you ignore the problem of parents
expiring.  It's a bit like posts that ask a question in the Subject: line,
and don't repeat it in the message body.

-- 
Benjamin Lewis

Mausoleum:  The final and funniest folly of the rich.
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