piercing question I have not seen mentioned

"i'll teach you to turn away." <crank@got.net> wrote in message
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> Stephanie <haaa@noway.net> wrote:
> S> Many newsreaders will quote for you. But it is not going to quote with
> S> attribute. I have never seen doing that in any newsgroup ever.
>
> uh, mine does. i didn't do anything except trim the above.
>

What do you use?

> lish "if you feel like this is what you need,
> crank@got.net you'll never understand." -ftf
> 43.9% / 30 RANA 128 / 70
>

"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.

"Karl Kleinpaste" <invalid@kleinpaste.org> wrote in message
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> "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

Stephanie <haaa@noway.net> wrote:
S> "i'll teach you to turn away." <crank@got.net> wrote in message
>> Stephanie <haaa@noway.net> wrote:
>> S> Many newsreaders will quote for you. But it is not going to quote with
>> S> attribute. I have never seen doing that in any newsgroup ever.
>> uh, mine does. i didn't do anything except trim the above.
S> What do you use?

you won't be able to use what i use. but like the other guy said,
it's standard. you may need to enable it is all.

lish "forget it," he said.
crank@got.net "oral sex gives me amnesia." -sk
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Stephanie wrote:
[...]

> You two need a room!

I'm almost certain that's been mentioned before.

re quote with attribution

I suspected what was explained elsewhere in this thread was true,
however that's not the case with my bestestest pal. Not that it
matters, but based on the inconsistency from post to post it's obvious
that he adds it manually. Whatever floats that boat I guess.

--
Curt