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From: Eileen Irwin <>
Subject: Re: [Ethics] Ethics
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 21:12:09 -0700
References: <200009250346.UAA05005@adit.ap.net>


No and yes.

No the problem didn't get compounded

And yes, someone else wrote that line originally! If you know how to
read the > and << you would see that this is a quote of something that
you quoted.

See I quoted what you wrote, thus one > in front of what you added as
new text. The > > is what you quoted and the > > << is what was quoted
from previous messages. It is not all being attributed to you.

When I was doing BBSing, the Blue Wave Off-Line Mail Reader had the
capability of placing each person's initials before the > sign, thus a
multi-quoted statement would appear as so: AA> BB> CC>. CC would have
been the original poster of the statement, BB would have quoted it in
his/her message and AA would have quoted it from BB's message.

I hope this makes things a little clearer. LOL

Eileen
Mesa, AZ

"L. R. Mills" wrote:
>
> And the problem gets compounded. I never wrote the line you are
> quoting me for. Someone else did.
>
> > In a message dated 09/23/2000 10:15:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
> > writes:
> >
> > << I found
> > > 10 citations with my name applied to sources. >>
> >
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