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Subject: 
Re: More on Airport security.
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:22:21 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Horst Lehner writes:


Horst, in future please don't trim the "who wrote what" lines away...

if you cite some prose at 4 or 5 or 6 nest levels deep it's important to
know who said what else you run the risk of severe misquoting.

So the referenced post should have started out looking like

Horst said:
J random said:
Fred said:
Steve said:

blah blah foam blah blah

or similar

instead of just

blah blah foam blah blah

THANKS! (It might not have been you doing all the trimming but I think it
was)...



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  Re: More on Airport security.
 
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