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Subject: 
lugnettiquete question
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:40:13 GMT
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Short question: since lugnet newsgroups are served up from a single
source, there are no issues with propagation errors.  There is no
problem of "my server never got the original message". If I reply to
any message, anyone reading my follow-up also has access to the
original message.

With that in mind, is it appropriate to <snip> quotes more aggresively
on lugnet?  I'd rather have shorter quotes than longer, but I don't
want to over-<snip> to the point that readers have no idea what I'm
talking about.

Trivial example: if I wanted to make a MeToo! post, would I / should I
skip the quote entirely, and just put

Me Too!

in the body of the message?

Steve



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: lugnettiquete question
 
(...) Uh, if you want to make a MeToo post, you should post it to alt.dev.null instead of LUGnet. (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: lugnettiquete question
 
Steve Bliss writes: <snipped with that in mind> (...) I think the italicized line from the posting page says it all: "Please be courteous to your readers..." I know it's only an example, so I'll run with it: "Me Too" is not considered courteous for (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: lugnettiquete question
 
(...) I usually like to snip as much as possible, as opposed to as little as necessary. I'd say: 1. Always always always snip sigs and garbage added by third-party free e-mail sites. ("Get your free @foofoo.com e-mail here!") 2. Except in truly rare (...) (26 years ago, 5-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: lugnettiquete question
 
(...) No! Quote still. Just because I read the previous post does NOT mean I have access to it when I read yours. I download messages to my computer, and read and reply offline.. Then close. When I close Agent, it PURGES all the old messages there. (...) (26 years ago, 6-Nov-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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