"John Edser"  wrote in message
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> > JE:-
> > Why not simply initial all quoted text so that
> > anybody can easily see who said what, as Josh
> > our esteemed moderator recommended.
> >
> 
> NAS:-
> You have answered your own question, John. I didn't type the above
> text.
> 
> JE:-
> My apologies. However, if the parts of the text
> I quoted had been initialled at the start
> of the first quote, I could
> not have made this mistake. Nature can stamp
> genomes with the hand of the previous author 
> using methylation. Why not learn from nature?
> All this confusion about who said what 
> as text is quoted and requoted, only has one 
> rational answer IMHO: initial all quoted text
> blocks from the _start_ of the quoting process.
> In this way authorship can never be lost.
> 

NAS:-

But somehow you still managed to do just that, as we saw. 

And even if such mistakes were vanishingly rare, there are other
problems. For instance, reading your posts I often get confused as to
who said what *when*. It's often difficult to see what is reply and
what has gone before. Let me illustrate . . .

Ahem. John, would I be wrong to suggest that your contributions to
this newsgroup are entirely worthless?

 
JE:-

Not necessarily. 


NAS:-

I see.

BTW, why "NAS" and not "NAAS"?
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