"Karl Kleinpaste" <invalid@kleinpaste.org> wrote in message
news:yu0wsvvp5mb.fsf@mesquite.kleinpaste.org...
> "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.
i stand corrected