sf wrote:
> Dave Bugg wrote:
> > Those of you who use Google Groups instead of a real newsreader need to
> > start quoting a bit of the text you are replying to. Since most newsreaders
> > are configured to delete previously read messages in a thread, it appears
> > that you are replying to something out of thin air. Please take the time to
> > do it right.
> >
> While I agree that they should take the time to do it right (which many
> people have demonstrated is easy enough to do), perhaps those who have
> their newsreaders set to automatically delete read posts should
> reconfigure their settings too. Google Groups users don't need to make
> up for your shortcomings. Real news readers are threaded for a reason
> and you're defeting the purpose by automatically deleting read
> messages. If you're interested in it, wait until the thread is dead or
> has drifted afar to delete.

Google is a real newsreader, it can automatically quote and can be set
in threaded "tree" format... there are many options available with
Google, if one takes a few minutes to learn. The one thing no
newsreader does is *trim* extraneous garbage, that is a manual
operation requiring user IQ, something all yoose Newbies really ought
to obtain. I'm positive that better than 75% of rfc posters are
italian... if slovenly garbage dump posting is representitive of your
homes, which it most definitely is... I know those who don't trim their
posts, especially of *extraneous attribution data*, don't flush their
terlits either, and we all know italians don't even have flush terlits.

M-W

la·sa·gna

noun

Etymology: Italian lasagna, from Vulgar Latin lasania cooking pot, its
contents, from Latin _lasanum chamber pot_,
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