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Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 12:56:30 +1100
Subject: Re: Possibly better loop construct, also labels+goto important and on the fly compiler idea.
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 12:45 PM, rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes... that page is longer and more confusing than necessary.
> 1. The double-posting bit is unnecessary -- not been happening after the 'new' GG.
> 2. The missing attributions problem is new and needs to be added
> 3. The main message of that page that needs to be noted is
> - to remove extra spurious lines
> - to NOT top-post

If someone's editing that page, it'd be nice to also ask people to
chop their lines short - most newsgroup and mail clients hard-wrap to
80 characters, but GG posts invariably come through with one-line
paragraphs. It's annoying when you try to quote the text, and several
online archives look ugly when the lines are too long.

ChrisA