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From: Frank Slootweg <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: alt.unix.geeks,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11
Subject: Re: Old geeks and thread drift
Date: 4 Apr 2026 14:10:23 GMT
Lars Poulsen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2026-04-03 11:10, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > > On 2026-04-03, Frank Slootweg <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> BTW, now we're 'complaining', *my* pet peeve is people quoting endless > >> cumulative sections of previous text - often tens and tens to some > >> hundred lines - without commenting on the text they quote and then > >> adding only a few lines of new text. > > > And then using that as a justification for top-posting. Grrr... > > TBH, it depends a lot on which newsreader you are using. > ThunderBird makes it easy, /slrn/ makes it next to impossible.
It doesn't matter if it's easy/easier or hard for the multitude of (human) readers, the *poster* should spent the effort to make it easy for *all* readers. Why should umpteen readers suffer, just because a poster (i.e. *one* person) can't be bothered to do the right thing?