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From: Hector Santos on 11 Feb 2010 13:05
Oh! I just realized, you used my fidonet software or certainly went
system, you might even installed it on your BBS! Did you miss the
fidonet days? Can't control people here enough? Can't excommunicate
them?

I think you follow this idea: You been twitted for being an annoying
wannabe banana hat moderator!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Clue about Usenet
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:07:19 +0000
From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
<J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups(a)NTLWorld.COM>
Organization: Wacks Wicks Works
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
References:



>> When topics drift, and other newsgroups become appropriate, it is
>> good netiquette of long standing (dating back to the 1980s) to move,
>> or at least begin to move, to the appropriate newsgroups.
>>
> It's also good netiquette to give attributions to what you quote and
> not post in html.
>


There's a reason that you've been directed to
|news.newusers.questions|. You're making the very same novice error
addressed in point #12 of the the "What is Usenet?" FAQ document
<http://faqs.org./faqs/usenet/what-is/part1/> for that newsgroup. It's
been a Frequently Given Answer for over 20 years. Read it and learn.
When you've done so, read about the References: header and how to use
that
<http://homepage.ntlworld.com./jonathan.deboynepollard/FGA/read-the-references-header.html>.

And when you've done that you might be ready to progress to the more
complex knowledge that HTML quoting in many newsreaders actually
provides /more accurate/ attributions than other forms, including as it
does an exact URI for the message <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2392>
as a |cite| attribute. For advanced-level knowledge, read the Usefor
discussions of this subject, by the likes of Russ Allbery and others, in
the late 1990s.


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