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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.''

      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-12  4:53 UTC|newest]

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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