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From: Mike Easter on 29 Apr 2010 12:44
Dewey Edwards wrote:
> Mike Easter

>> I've pasted from a link -- and/or with pasting the link immediately
>> followed by the pasting -- and/or pasting the link with additional
>> punctuation in the form of quote marks or double slashes to frame the
>> pasting -- and/or designations such as <q> </q> to open and close the quote.
>>
>> Personally I think it adds too many keystrokes to have to markup the
>> quote -- but I would like to hear the opinion of others.
>
>
> Disagree. It takes TWO extra keystokes.

<still debating>

It seems that if I paste the link immediately followed - in the same par
without empty line - by the pasting from the link's page - that it
should be 'apparent' that the words which follow the URL belong to the
something I pasted from the URLs page, either copied from the source
Title line or copied from something on the link's page, even without the
keystrokes.

I'm not defending the way BB did it at the beginning of this thread,
which pasting wasn't apparent.

> One types a ", one then pastes, and one then closes the quote with
> another ".

Yeah. but...

Similarly, if I create an 'imaginary' conversation between two people, I
might be lazy and leave out the quote marks if their quotes seem
apparent by the structure and separation of the lines. Like a
screenwriter would, no quotes in screenwriting.



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Mike Easter
From: Craig on 29 Apr 2010 12:54
On 04/29/2010 05:57 AM, Mike Easter wrote:
> Personally I think it adds too many keystrokes to have to markup the
> quote -- but I would like to hear the opinion of others.

Dunno. For me, I try to set up a pattern that's easy for me to stick to
and, to the casual eye, will be obvious. So, it goes like:

- I, the acf participant, provide intro & context. Then,
- the target's words speak for themselves, ending with
- the target's url.

I use the FireFox extension, QuoteURLText, which makes this pretty
farkin easy. Never bothered to count keystrokes though <grin>.

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-Craig
From: Lew/Silat on 29 Apr 2010 12:59

"Mike Easter" <MikeE(a)ster.invalid> wrote in message
news:83trbfFkoqU1(a)mid.individual.net...
> Mike Easter


Prof Bear B Doll is an expert Mike. Just ask it.
Making excuses for it is unseemly. :)

Lew

From: Mike Easter on 29 Apr 2010 13:15
Lew/Silat wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

> Prof Bear B Doll is an expert Mike. Just ask it.
> Making excuses for it is unseemly. :)

Oh, it was not my intention to excuse BB.

BB's posting style should not have been ambiguous about whose words were
whose. Or whom's if that sounds better.



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Mike Easter
From: Gordon Darling on 29 Apr 2010 14:53
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 18:13:46 +0000, Bear Bottoms wrote:

> Huck, I offered to help you by going as far as telephoning

Using your MagicJack Batphone?





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