<ahem>, the 15 lines Ray Shahan added were in a private email sent to Jim
Mcoy.
Ray Shahan
Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well preserved body, but rather to skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming:
-- WOW!!! What a Ride! --
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brice Yokem [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 7:26 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HP3000-L] OT: Fw: misplaced faith in Kerry (offshoring)
>
> So, Jim Mc Coy forwarded a very long rambling post from another list
> about Kerry and Offshoring jobs (which in itself is boring and
> irrelevant, in my view) which spans 210 lines in my reader.
>
> John McDowell replied to the post and copied in the entire 210 lines in
> his reply with the additional 16 lines he added (226)
>
> Jim McCoy replied to John MacDowall's reply, added in another 15 lines
> and copied the entire previous thread (241)
>
> Ray Shahan added 15 lines with a comment of his own (256) which Jim
> McCoy replied to with another 13 lines and included the entire previous
> thread (269).
>
> Scott Gates added another comment to the thread (10 lines) but,
> mercifully and sensibly didn't include the whole thread in his reply,
> just 244 lines!
>
> Jim McCoy responded with another mere 5 lines but included the entire
> other 244 lines in his reply!!. (249)
>
> Scott gates added another 11 lines as a reply and also included the
> previous 249 lines (260).
>
> Shawn Gordon replied and , thank heavens, only posted his reply.
>
> But then Bruce Collins added his 18 lines and included the entire 260
> lines from the previous post!!!(279)
>
> Billmac then replied to Shawn Gordons short reply.....so Shawn replied
> to billmac but then copied the entire thread again in his reply (with an
> additional 13 lines).
> (292)
>
> Come on, guys. The subject itself is inane anyway and should definitely
> be taken off list as I am sure many people are fed up to the back teeth
> with all this Republican/Democrat Bush/Kerry/Clinton cr*p. It seems to
> be mostly perpetuated by the names above.
>
> Apart from all that, it is ridiculous to keep quoting an entire thread
> every time you post a reply. Surely you guys can see that? My digest
> today had over 2000 lines in it of just this stupid thread and all its
> repeats. Use a bit of sense!
>
> Thank you.
>
> I will now get off my soap-box and return you to the normal
> noise-to-garbage ratio!
>
> Cheers,
>
> John Dunlop
>
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