Joe Starck wrote:
> Is it appropriate, allowable, for posts to always be
> accompanied by quotes, as Sheldon Brown always does,
> no matter the looseness of association to the contents
> of the post, no matter the political/religious
> message?
Such quotes are considered to be part of the signature, not the message
content and thus are judged by a looser standard. The email RFCs suggest
that such signatures be kept short -- 4 lines is a frequent rule of
thumb: http://www.faqs.org/
> And what's the difference between quoting others and quoting oneself, really?
Nothing but modesty, generally.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA