Re: quake 3 review

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From: Iñaki Silanes
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 20:17

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OscartheGrouch wrote:

> "muktheknie®" <mukhp@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:4ubbp15133gbhdphibvp797cleop6mfl5i@4ax.com...
>> On 6 Dec 2005 06:56:36 -0800, "Craig M" <ncinftec_stud7@hotmail.co.uk>

[big snip]

>> Let's do the time warp agaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin....
> 
> Hey Craig, this game came out in 1999. It's almost 2006. Wasn't sure you
> knew those things.
> 
> I think I'll write up a review of monopoly. I'll post it here when I'm
> done.

Guess what? Snipping out unneeded parts of the quote of a post you reply to
was invented much earlier than Q3A. Probably even earlier than Monopoly.

Snipping puts a little extra effort in the side of a _single_ person (the
poster), so that _lots_ of people (the readers) don't get annoyed by having
to scroll down hundreds of lines only to find a humorous one-liner.

-- 
Iñaki Silanes / Chemistry Faculty UPV-EHU Donostia
http://www.sc.ehu.es/powgep99/dcytp/teoricos/staff/inaki/inaki.htm
On Intelligent Design: http://www.venganza.org/

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From: Iñaki Silanes <isilanes@bluebottle.com>
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Subject: Re: quake 3 review
Date: Tue, 06 Dec 2005 21:17:45 +0100
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