"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmm, and I thought it was respectful to actually address someone you > are talking to.
On Usenet, it's respectful to all readers if you give a short quoted passage from the message you're responding to, so we can follow the discussion with context. gmail allows you to do this. You have the option to edit a quoted version of the message, removing the parts irrelevant to your response, and putting your response following each relevant part. > Must every statement be a reaction to a quotable comment? Not necessarily. But if you're only making new statements, you should compose your message as a new topic, instead of as a reply to an existing message. > In any case, I realize I was completley wrong. Please allow me to > retract my statement. It's hard to see what that is, since you don't provide any context. Are we expected to re-read the entire thread to guess what you're referring to? -- \ "Not using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker 40 or | `\ 50 years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's | _o__) hard to avoid second-hand smoke." -- Michael Tiemann | Ben Finney -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
