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Re: Storing dates

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Tim Streater wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> > On Sat, 21 Jun 2014 22:06:25 +0100, Tim Streater
>> > <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote in comp.databases.mysql:
>> 
>> It's attribution *line*, _not_ attribution novel.
> 
> The attribution you quote here is in fact incomplete.

Nonsense.  The only information that cannot reasonably be omitted is the 
name of the author of the precursor, so that the quoted text can be 
attributed to them.  Everything else is not essential, and is disturbing 
when included, for the discussion.  It can be retrieved by other means in 
the unlikely event that it is needed.

For example, the Message-ID of the precursor is the last Message-ID in a 
posting’s “References” header field value.  The “From” address often is not 
(and, for example, in my case, is certainly not) the preferred contact 
address because spammers can scan the “From” header field value more easily 
than the “Reply-To” header field.

That is why “<name> wrote:” is the factory setting for the attribution in 
several decent newsreaders.

-- 
PointedEars

Twitter: @PointedEars2
Please do not Cc: me. / Bitte keine Kopien per E-Mail.

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Re: Storing dates Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-22 14:59 +0200
  Re: Storing dates Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-06-22 09:27 -0400
    Re: Storing dates Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-22 22:20 +0200
    Re: Storing dates Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2014-06-23 06:01 +0000
  Re: Storing dates Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-06-22 16:11 +0100
    Re: Storing dates Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-06-22 22:42 +0200

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