Re: Reply to attendees who've acceptted

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From: JBFields (jbfields_at_msn.com)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: 10 Mar 2005 07:53:59 -0800

It was in context with the previous and only post in the thread.
Google doesn't automatically quote what we reply to and when others do
it replaces the quoted text with a link. Others have suggested
newsgroup users parse out unnecessary copy to save space and bandwidth
(as if such things are in short supply). Then there is the whole
discussion... If one does quote the entire previous thread in newsgroup
replies whether ones own additions (and subsequent comments) belong at
the top or the bottom. Laura Robinson, on the MCT partners' newsgroup,
has persuaded many that new comments belong at the bottom so we can
read news posts top-down. This, however, is not the default behavior
of most news-reader programs. Even if you were using the same Google
interface as I am and saw the message in context, the chances are that
its ambiguity might have annoyed you as its purpose was to express
annoyance. Nothing personal, but too bad there aren't more people
using VB with Outlook, and contributing here, as many people as use
Outlook, while over on the Perl areas one sees increadible
participation concerning things much less useful.

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