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Ken Hutson <ken### [at] goettingcom> wrote:
> Perhaps the word "incorrect" was a poor choice of words. I'm used to seeing
> a simpler definition:
> For any real number a, the absolute value of a, is denoted | a | , and is
> defined as:
Could you please use proper formatting of a news reply? What I see here
is a bit ridiculous.
First is your answer, which ends with "is defined as:". Immediately after
that is the whole original article quoted (beats me how that is the
definition of absolute value). After that comes a gif attachment (which,
by the way, shows only as a black square here).
I know that some braindead newsreader programs, when hitting the reply
button, will quote the entire original article, put some empty lines
*before* it and then put the cursor at the beginning, and this will tempt
you to just write your answer there. However, for the sake of clarity that's
a bad idea.
Quote only *relevant* parts of the original post. Keeping the entire
original post is just a waste of bandwidth.
Answer *after* the quote. If you are answering to several things in
the original post, put each individual answer after each individual
quote. It should look like this:
Some Name wrote:
> Some text.
My answer to this.
> More text.
Another answer.
> Yet more text.
Yet another answer.
If the original post is long and you are answering to it as a whole,
not particularly to any specific part of it, then you can leave the quote
out completely. People will be able to read the original post you are
answering to if they want. You don't need to repeat it.
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- Warp
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