From: dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos)
To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: your text should follow quoted text
Date: 12 Sep 2007 00:53:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871wd4o56a.fsf@yahoo.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tzq9e95t.fsf@orme.bigwalter.net>
daniel@bigwalter.net (Daniel Jensen) writes:
> dbast0s@yahoo.com.br (Daniel C. Bastos) writes:
>
> > Writing a follow up to a post, gnus told me
> >
> > Your text should follow quoted text. Really post?
> >
> > What does he mean by that? The article was
> >
> > <84abs21gyd.fsf@blade3.toledo.com>
> >
> > on comp.lang.haskell.
>
> You quoted some text at the end of the article, but you did not write a
> reply after that.
Hm, I see; it considers top-posting any chunk not answered. Sometimes
you don't want to comment a final chunk of the previous poster, but want
to leave that in case the poster would like to make reference to it
again. Thanks for ``quoting-style.''
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-04 17:29 Daniel C. Bastos
2007-09-04 18:07 ` Edward O'Connor
2007-09-05 5:30 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.317.1188929719.18990.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2007-09-04 23:46 ` Daniel C. Bastos
2007-09-05 9:47 ` Daniel Jensen
2007-09-05 9:58 ` Daniel Jensen
2007-09-12 4:53 ` Daniel C. Bastos [this message]
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