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   Richmond to oldernow   
   Re: The proof is in the posting   
   18 Apr 24 18:18:02   
   
   From: dnomhcir@gmx.com   
      
   oldernow  writes:   
      
   > Maybe I'm just hyper-judgemental, but it really bothers   
   > me when people are half-assed in ways that inconvenience   
   > others. To me it's obvious that working harder to not   
   > inconvenience others *alone* would dramatically alter   
   > society and interactions for the better.   
   >   
      
   To be fair to the quote-everything brigade, from their point of view it   
   looks like the standard etiquette, and that it is inconvenient to have   
   to look at the previous article for context. And that servers may only   
   store articles for a short period. (The server I am using goes back over   
   a year for this group.)   
      
   With Gnus I just press ^ for the previous article although I can't do   
   that when typing a new one, I have to switch buffers first.   
      
   Here in England, car drivers consider cyclists a nuisance because they   
   hold up the traffic by moving slowly around parked cars, whereas   
   cyclists consider car drivers a nuisance because they hold up the   
   traffic by leaving parked cars at the side of the road.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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