convenient trimming of quoted text to make points

[L A Walsh]

cyg Simple wrote:
> On 8/24/2017 8:36 PM, L A Walsh wrote:
>   
>> If you can't trim your quoted text, then please stop burying the
>> new stuff on the bottom.
>>     
>
> Did you wake up on the wrong side of the bed.  I see from a google
> search that you've had problems with style in the past even on this list.
>   
Maybe I'm one of the few who has RSI and gets irritated by having
to go through extra steps to skip large walls of text.
> List etiquette frowns on both bottom and top posting and warrants to
> interleaving the replies.
>   
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    I know of no list where that is commonly practiced.
> Well all and good but you hijacked a thread to bring home a point which
> is in itself just wrong.
>   
To selectively quote things in your reply to make your point is the
problem here, since I replied to the original subject, extensively.
It was you who deleted the "on-topic" part of the message to make
your point.


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