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Re: Best way to learn C?

From Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Best way to learn C?
Date 2021-12-19 16:10 -0800
Organization None to speak of
Message-ID <87y24g5e61.fsf@nosuchdomain.example.com> (permalink)
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> Manfred <noname@add.invalid> writes:
>>(I see now that those lines have gone - I was not aware when I wrote my 
>>reply. While I'm writing this empty lines are still in)
>
>   I edit quotations manually to remove whitespace and empty
>   lines. My intention is to still have it there but take less
>   space, so as to make it clear that it is less relevant now
>   because it's been probably read before and to make the new
>   material stand out.
>
>   OTOH, what I cannot stand is when my posts are modified by
>   the moderation of a moderated newsgroup before publication
>   because in this case people think that I must have written
>   it this way since they cannot see what I actually have
>   submitted. That's why I stopped posting in comp.std.c. The
>   moderation was not even willing to publish a post wherein
>   I wanted to discuss this. 

comp.std.c is not moderated.  comp.lang.c.moderated is, but the
last post I see is from 2014.

I don't know what modifications were made, but there are some I'd
consider reasonable.

Deleting blank lines that mark paragraphs seems like a bad idea.
For example, I wouldn't consider deleting the blank line in
your quote.  I might not quote the whole thing, but I'd mark any
deletions.  I do sometimes re-wrap quoted text.

And indenting original material as you've done here goes against
Usenet convention and hurts clarity.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips
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