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Re: FAQ and Primer for COLA, Edition III

  • Subject: Re: FAQ and Primer for COLA, Edition III
  • From: flatfish+++ <flatfish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:07:59 -0400
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: mariana.trench
  • References: <660ju3-r5g.ln1@dog.did.it> <QlDRg.3921$LF6.675@newsfe12.lga> <i6eju3-mvi.ln1@dog.did.it> <reply_in_group-E3B1A1.16343724092006@news.supernews.com> <tkkju3-aik.ln1@dragon.myth> <reply_in_group-89734B.20261724092006@news.supernews.com> <mdeku3-p43.ln1@dragon.myth> <reply_in_group-B941BE.20593025092006@news.supernews.com>
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On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:59:31 -0700, Tim Smith wrote:

> In article <mdeku3-p43.ln1@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
>  Jim Richardson <warlock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> So, having read the post, do you support FF's mangling of the URL and
>> then attributing the words to another? 
> 
> Editing things marked as quoted (other than standard edits, like 
> replacing things with [...] and marking things with (sic)) is always 
> wrong.  He should not have done that.
> 
> Mangling the URL in the quotes is wrong.  He should not have done that.
> 
> If the URL had not been quoted, so the mangling was just to prevent 
> people from going to the references site, rather than to make it look 
> like someone else mangled it, then I think it is annoying, whether he 
> does it, or whether Roy S does it.


I generally don't do it, I was only trying to prove a point and give
Roiboi a little of his own medicine.

IOW subject lines that have nothing to do with the body of the message.




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