[SpamCop-List] Re: automation

[Steve Sybesma]

John Richards is right. He's a voice of sanity in an uptight world run
by people like you.

I'm sure he can deal with worse and yet have far more grace about it
than you.

Kudos John!

"Cat" <nobody at devnull.spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:d8g37i$1bq$1 at news.spamcop.net...
> John Richards wrote:
> > Cat wrote:
> >
> >>   You have to understand that
> >> when you insist on top posting while everyone else is posting in
logical
> >>  order with comments added below each quoted point and
unnecessary
> >> parts snipped out
> >
> >
> > That's quite an assumption.
>
> Assumption of what?
>
> > Unfortunately "everyone else", even in this
> > newsgroup does not snip out all unnnecesssary parts.
>
> I actually have at least one long time regular in my killfile for
> repeatedly quoting things several posts deep just to reply to a very
> small part of a reply. Most of the people in my killfile are there
for
> either top posting or never snipping. Most people in this newsgroup
snip
> and post within reason and politely.
>
> > Even the post
> > of yours that I'm replying to had so much quoted text that I had
to
> > scroll down to see all of the reply. I hate scrolling through
messy quoted
> > text.
>
> Gee, eight lines of text in a paragraph and notes for a couple of
> helpful links under that. There was nothing messy in the quoted part
> that I included, and I don't think a reply of that length is
anything to
> bother complaining about. If I had only added one line of text or
less
> than a line, that would have been something to complain about.
>
> > I already was familiar with the comment you were responding to, so
> > it wasn't necessary for me to read the quoted text. Unless you
> > suffer from really poor recollection you shouldn't need to reread
text
> > you've read moments before in a prior post.
>
> Since I was responding to his complaining as a whole, I couldn't
decide
> which parts I wanted to snip and which to leave. I suppose I could
have
> added a <snip bratty rudeness> bit and left maybe a line, but I feel
> that you're just looking for an excuse to nitpick and encourage him
to
> continue being obnoxious.