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[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/9/12 4:24 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:05:00 -0500, Ary Manzana <ary at esperanto.org.ar>
> wrote:
>
>> What are you talking about?
>
> Who are you talking to?
>
> :)
>
> Seriously, though, I think Andrej sometimes quotes *nothing* (no offense
> for picking on you Andrej), and couple that with the newsgroup's
> seemingly random decision to start a new thread, or put a reply at the
> same level, I sometimes have no idea what he's talking about :)

There are extremes, of course. I, for one, take pains to make sure I 
quote about the "right" amount of context. I know it's time well spent 
because every second I save for one reader is multiplied by many of 
them. I think it's very jarring to see a 300-line discussion quoted and 
followed by a brief answer. If that much context is necessary, I'd have 
no business reading that message unless I actually followed the 
conversation.

Andrei