From: spam@merlyn.demon.co.uk   
      
   JRS:  In article <41c70ac9$0$1687$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de>, dated Mon,   
   20 Dec 2004 18:13:39, seen in news:comp.lang.pascal.borland, Markus Humm   
    posted :   
   >[snip]   
   >   
   >>>I hope I didn't offend anyone here.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> By not giving an attribution at the head of your post, you did.  I had   
   >> to resize windows, etc., to see who you were referring to; the already-   
   >> berated one, or the other.   
   >>   
   >I'm sorry about that, but that he already got an advice about that was   
   >only later seen by me. And the post clearly replied to "guzzy", although   
   >I must admid that the nesting of this thread already is unusualy deep   
   >(at least in comparison with most threads here).   
      
   You miss the point, AFAICS.  In this article, the attribution is the   
   first three lines, J ... : .   
      
   Usenet standards call for giving attributions.   
      
   Don't omit them just because you think they don't help *you*; different   
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   different types of Net connection, and different news servers showing   
   articles in different orders.   
      
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