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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 21/10/2013 07:44, Peter Cacioppi wrote:
>> [ a whole lot of stuff ]
>
> As my crystal ball is once again being mended, would you please be kind
> enough to tell all of us who and exactly what you're replying to.

Mine is in service at the moment. It says that Peter was actually trying to say:

"I use Google Groups and it sucks, so I delete all the context because
then nobody can see how much it sucks at showing context."

Peter, please can you use a different posting method? GG doesn't wrap
text properly, so it often results in really long lines with only a
single angle-bracket marking it as a quote, which makes the _next_
level of citation ugly.

ChrisA