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From: Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org>
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Subject: Re: "a Pair of Panties" ?????
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2024 10:45:21 +1000
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On 03/07/24 06:15, Snidely wrote:
> On Tuesday or thereabouts, Sn!pe declared ...
>> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 02/07/24 10:18, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>> Peter Moylan <peter@pmoylan.org> wrote:
>>>>> On 02/07/24 06:47, Sn!pe wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nitpick:  I wrote none of the quoted material below.  [grump]
>>>
>>> Sorry, my mistake.
>>
>> Thanks  :)
>
> What /is/ the suggested protocol for responding to a post through
> anther's followup?  Sometimes you can pop back and find the post
> you're responding to, but sometimes you can't, and sometimes you're
> think you're going to respond to both authors but then you don't.
>
> I would be tempted to change the attribution line to "Snipe quoted:"
>  because that respects the threading.  Would you prefer that the
> attribution line is removed completely, but the quoted portions
> retain the full amount of guzintas?  Is there something else you
> recommend?

My usual practice is to prune anything that's irrelevant to my own
response, then count the gazintas, and use that to work out which
attribution lines to delete. In the present case I overlooked a line, but
normally it's easy to get it right.

Actually, in the present case I should have noticed that I hadn't
responded to any of Sn!pe's comments, so I should have gone back and
made my response a followup to the previous article in the thread tree.

-- 
Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW