On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 07:38:04 -0500, Nancy Young wrote:

>
> "sf" > wrote
>
> > On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 11:38:57 -0500, Nancy Young wrote:
>
> >> "sf" > wrote
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >>
> >> Shortcomings? A post that doesn't reference what the hell they are
> >> talking about is not anyone else's shortcoming.
>
> > Are you talking to me? I quoted and it shows up in my regular news
> > reader which is called Agent. Guess your OE couldn't make the grade.
>
> Yes I'm talking to you. I know you quoted whatever. I was talking
> about you implying that it's someone else's problem if they don't have
> the older post right there handy to see what someone is talking about.
>
> No, if you post something, it should stand on it's own. If one wants to go
> back further to see how the conversation got to that point, fine ... but
> just
> posting a reply that could be in response to just about any of the previous
> posts in that thread, leaving it to the reader to go back and interpret is
> stupid.
>
> How you blame that on the reader's newsreader is unfathomable.
>
First of all, I didn't blame his news reader... I blamed the settings.
If you can't figure out the difference, then we're done talking.

I agreed that GG Posters should take the time to do it right. It
takes two to tango. They should quote and HE should keep enough posts
to have context, unless of course... he wants to Google for it.
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