Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: Allan C Cybulskie (allan.c.cybulskie_at_yahoo.ca)
Date: 02/15/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 20:13:52 -0500

"Neil W Rickert" <rickert+nn@cs.niu.edu> wrote in message
news:cur99t$2ag$1@usenet.cso.niu.edu...
> Tony Orlow (aeo6) <aeo6@cornell.edu> writes:
>
> >Neil - please don't snip out the relevant parts of my posts and then
> >respond as if they weren't there, or I'll stop responding to you.
>
> Quoting from "The Net: User Guidelines and Netiquette - by Arlene
> Rinaldi" http://www.fau.edu/netiquette/net/elec.html
>
> When quoting another person, edit out whatever isn't
> directly applicable to your reply.

Of course, if the other person gets upset that you've ignored a major point
that seems to be applicable, perhaps you need to readjust your definition of
"directly applicable".

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