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("Dudley Henriques" wrote)
snip Let me put it this way. You can be technically right. Montblank can be technically right. But I will avoid both of you in any post I make on Usenet because you are playing games with my name under a pedantic litany of technicality that involves something I believe the average reader would miss when reading something attributed to me that I did not say. It's THAT simple! In my opinion, if indents are to be used to separate two individuals in a quoted text involving both individuals, BOTH people should be named in the "said" heading; not one. This being done, the indents then serve their useful purpose as a separator. Naming only one individual, then using a double indent that can easily be missed is both misleading and disingenuous. Hmm. First things first. S.P.M. posted a lengthy explanation (for him) and you shot back with a two word answer - that for me was worth a chuckle. WRT the above passage snip: I think there is style and then there's general use (SOP). I'm sorry Dudley ole'buddy, but I think you're not right in this case. I responded to you. You were responding to someone else. No need to include all previous information from the thread, just enough to move it along. S.P.M's name wasn't needed for that end - plain and simple. ....means two posts ago. ......means your post. I think you're grabbing at being wronged here. You've got the 'No One Treats DH That Way" machinery in place and by gum you're bound and determined to pull me into it. This is how I trim my post. This is how I've been trimming my posts. However...In the future, I will take special care to attribute other people's quotes when your name is involved. Now a postscript, as it were. At first glance I didn't think you had a horse in this race because you seldom trim your posts. Then I realized that, in a pedantic technicality kind of way, your bases are covered. g Montblack |
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