wrote:

Brian, when you paste this way, all the formatting is lost, so there's
no way to tell who is speaking. (I know because I've read the
original, but presumably most people here have not.) If you want it to
be comprehensible, you really have to go through it and indicate
breaks and speakers before publishing it.


Posting hints

Here are some references for those who are interested
in improving the quality of their posts to newsgroups:

--------------------------------------------------------

How do I quote correctly in usenet?
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html

How do I quote correctly in Usenet? - Quoting and Answering
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

Common Mistakes in Usenet Postings and How to Avoid Them
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/ant...ws-errors.html

Quoting and Answering
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/

How should I react to crackpot messages?
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/crackpot.html

How should I react to abusive postings or email?
http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/abusive.html

How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

The power of negative thinking: how to excel without doing anything
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/dont.html

Netiquette: "When thou enter a city, abide by its customs."
http://www.montebello.k12.ca.us/Reso...map/map07.html

Zen and the art of the internet (usenet section)
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html

Why you shouldn't ask for E-mail responses on Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usene...responses.html

The Word Made Flesh
http://www.hoboes.com/html/NetLife/J...MadeFlesh.html

Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

+What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html

Put an end to Outlook Express's messy quotes with this automated fix!
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

For the Engineer/Programmer: News related RFCs and Drafts
http://www.tin.org/docs.html


From (spit!) microsoft:

"When including text from a previous message in the thread,
trim it down to include only text pertinent to your response.
Your response should appear below the quoted information."

On Apr 12, 2:24 am, Guy Macon http://www.guymacon.com/ wrote:
wrote:
Brian, when you paste this way, all the formatting is lost, so there's
no way to tell who is speaking. (I know because I've read the
original, but presumably most people here have not.) If you want it to
be comprehensible, you really have to go through it and indicate
breaks and speakers before publishing it.

Posting hints

Here are some references for those who are interested
in improving the quality of their posts to newsgroups:

(Snip)

How should I react to crackpot messages?http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/crackpot.html

Ah, something written with RGCP in mind.