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Old 08-16-2007, 06:26 PM   #17 (permalink)
Karl Kleinpaste
 
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Default Re: piercing question I have not seen mentioned

"Stephanie" <haaa@noway.net> writes:
> Many newsreaders will quote for you. But it is not going to quote with
> attribute. I have never seen doing that in any newsgroup ever.


Nonsense.

Any real newsreader will quote with attribution. It's been common and
standard since the first incarnation of rn, and is an absolute
requirement in GNKSA (good net-keeping seal of approval), in line item
10, as seen in http://www.gnksa.org/gnksa.txt:

| ...the quoted
| text MUST be preceded by an "attribution line" identifying the author of
| the text that is being quoted.

This is to say, proper quotation attribution has been a standard feature
for all conforming newsreaders for roughly 2 decades.

There is a reason why GNKSA came into existence. It's because so many
idiot programmers are out there, writing crap code without any respect
for standards, or even baseline capability.
 
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