Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: BGB Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcm9pZOKAlFdoeSBEYWx2aWs/?= Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:23:15 -0700 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net Y2Gq3707W1nxUhdXmc6s9Vc1OzD9Dj3UAhwzCw+jiflip/eeK9ygiachQbrX+wUM1T4fsAEOXnnatqSnzMA4uO7WDDHEfWjcBiCc1mHmIeLmTmNEn3gHdvrx0Qa4+zal NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 20:26:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="CnumvkhJqr3kDa6nu4gcud+l7AsLeZrhDKyFHZr8E7uw0YmRzmPVLMnNTwiXYEJOSxGTkVvuwds2s/UyAl4DBYNWyh5DKo+J1H3IvibgVoQHwCaAtAWC3T5KyYM6AqBB"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:UoSrP2Fy99ESq5dKw0lNPoRlK40= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:4765 On 5/30/2011 3:30 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message, BGB wrote: > >> snipping statements ... > > *Sigh* I get this crap all the time from the clueless newbies. Let me > explain to you something about USENET: my postings are to record what I > said, not what you said. If I quote any part of you said, it is to give > some context for what I said, nothing more. > > Rest assured if I reply to you I did read what you said, whether I quoted > it or not. If I was ignoring what you said, I wouldn’t even bother replying > to you. > I have been using usenet for, what, 15 years... now, the problem with your quoting style is that it often seems to be being done in a way which obscures or misrepresents what the person who was being responded to actually said, as if one is trying to retroactively alter it and responding to this alteration instead of the original meaning. hence, this would appear to be a sort of trolling.