on Tue, Dec 25, 2001, Phillip Deackes (gsmh@gmx.co.uk) wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> > Phillip Deackes wrote:
> > > On 24 Dec 2001 17:44:44 -0500
> > > > Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > No, but when a business chooses degenerate mail and forces everyone
> > > > to use it, I'd be pretty suspicious of high-level idiocy within the
> > > > business.
> >
> > I did not write that, it was written in a response to my email.
> >
>
> Sorry, Erik. I thought I had sorted all the nested quotes and arrived at
> the author of the quote - and this where we all correctly bottom-post.
> Goodness knows how they do it where everyone top-posts!
That's easy: I delete the posts ;-)
And I won't say a thing, not a thing, about reposting articles to lists
which shall remain nameless, formatted so that they're actually
***FUCKING READABLE***....and taking the opportunity to replace "leader"
with "monopolist" in "about Microsoft" portions of press releases. No,
not a thing.
> I assumed a single > before 'xxxx wrote' would match up to a single >
> before a response.
No. See above:
on Tue, Dec 25, 2001, Phillip Deackes (gsmh@gmx.co.uk) wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Dec 2001, Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> wrote:
...the attribution line is the _current_ author's addition. So, I say
"on date, foo wrote", but foo is quoted as "> what foo wrote". Above,
Phillip wrote that Erik wrote....
> Maybe somewhere along the line the attribution got mangled.
Looks like it was your doing. Your attribution lines themselves are
wrapping, whihc may be part of the problem.
> Then looking at your post I think I have got it wrong. No quote before
> 'xxx wrote' matches single quote before comments.
Yes.
> I think I have eaten and drunk too much!!
It could be worse. You could have drunk and eaten too much ;-)
Peace.
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