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Re: OFFTOPIC, WAS Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy

From Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject Re: OFFTOPIC, WAS Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy
Date 2015-05-11 12:41 +1000
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zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 9:18:55 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:
> > That actually has nothing to do with it. You're still quoting
> > without citation.
>
> Well, I replied right at the point of my correspondent (Alex23).

That's not the issue :-)

The omission Chris is referring to is: in earlier messages, you were
stripping the “attribution line” from directly above the quoted
material. That makes it anonymous, and it becomes difficult to track who
said what.

The attribution line looks like:

    “On Sunday, May 10, 2015 at 9:18:55 PM UTC-5, Chris Angelico wrote:”

without the quote marks.

You need to preserve the attribution lines – as you did on the message
just now, that I'm replying to – in order to show who wrote what quoted
material.

Only remove attribution lines if you're *also* removing all of the
attributed material. Keep attribution lines for the material you're
quoting.

-- 
 \        “We have to go forth and crush every world view that doesn't |
  `\                believe in tolerance and free speech.” —David Brin |
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Ben Finney

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Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-05-10 18:46 -0700
  Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 12:00 +1000
    Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-05-10 19:11 -0700
      Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-05-11 12:18 +1000
        OFFTOPIC, WAS Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy zipher <dreamingforward@gmail.com> - 2015-05-10 19:27 -0700
          Re: OFFTOPIC, WAS Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-05-11 12:41 +1000
  Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-05-11 16:15 +1000
    Re: Confessions of a Python fanboy Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-05-11 07:31 +0100

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