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Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Path: oz.cdrom.com!agate!library.ucla.edu!csulb.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!rrward
From: rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward)
Subject: Re: AOL People - what's the deal with your newsreaders?
Message-ID: <rrwardCvKspz.CAo@netcom.com>
Organization: Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems
References: <92070.vanes002@maroon.tc.umn.edu> <346bm5$iib@search01.news.aol.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 1994 22:49:10 GMT
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In article <346bm5$iib@search01.news.aol.com> thundertmf@aol.com (ThunderTMF) writes:
>In article <92070.vanes002@maroon.tc.umn.edu>, "John Van Essen"
><vanes002@maroon.tc.umn.edu> writes:
>
>>>Almost every time I see a post from an AOL account, it usually has
>>>an attribution line (In article blah, someone wrote:) but either
>>>totally lacks any text from that article, or else the text has no
>>>prefix character to indicate that it's not the AOL poster's comments.
>
>Yeah, as you can see, the correct way is shown above. The AOL newsreader
>automatically inserts the quote statement when you choose to "respond" to
>a message rather than "send a new message", where it would be omitted.
>Most of the time people are just too lazy to cut and paste a statement to
>refer to the original message. Others don't know how. My apologies on
>their behalf.
Yes, but they shouldn't have to do it by hand. The software should do it for
them. Almost every other newsreading software out there (save a few weird
ones on some funky BBS systems) does it for you automatically. As has been
stated in another newsgroup, AOL people should really complain to their
administrators and ask them (implor them) to get their idiot software up to
spec. I mean, they've managed to correct the "post it eight times in a row"
bug, why not something as simple as quoting correctly?
Richard