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   !Jones to All   
   Re: I was once arrested at a protest.   
   06 Feb 26 20:25:09   
   
   XPost: talk.politics.guns, seattle.general, talk.politics.misc   
   From: x@y.com   
      
   >Not at all.   
   >You previously wrote, "... I programmed my old open source reader to not   
   include   
   >previously quoted material back in 2001 ..." yet you include quoted material   
   >when it suits you.   
   >   
   >Stopping the lies would gain you credibility.   
      
   If I simply hit "reply", it strips quoted material from the post to   
   which I respond.  If, OTOH, I select text, it includes the text I have   
   selected whether quoted or not.  Is that why yer knickers are in a   
   wad?   
      
   You're being deliberately obtuse about a simple matter, Headley.  I   
   dislike threads where the quoted material becomes tedious.  I also   
   disapprove of the "interruptive" style of reply wherein the respondent   
   pastes his or her writing into the existing post at various points.   
   To that end, I wrote some simple selection logic (IF-THEN-ELSE) into   
   the source code and ran it through the C compiler.  Any sharp high   
   school programmer could do the same given source code.   
      
   NNTP newsreaders are pretty simple... the NNTP protocol is absolutely   
   archaic.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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