[EM] Reply to A. A. about sloppy quoting

[MIKE OSSIPOFF]

I'd said:

>You said:
>
>Could you please show proof that WV (RP/Beatpath/River) passes
>Consistency and CWP does not?

Hi Mike,

I'm getting weary of the sloppy quoting

I reply:

What sloppy quoting? Did you or did you not say:

>Could you please show proof that WV (RP/Beatpath/River) passes
>Consistency and CWP does not?

Or, by sloppy quoting, do you mean that I quoted something that was sloppy, 
like your request that I prove something that I didn't say?

You object to the fact that I didn't say whom I was quoting.

For one thing, what difference does it make what was the name of the person 
who said that? Whoever it was, I was replying to it.

I don't complain about foreign names, and I can't expect everyone's name to 
be an easy one. Yours isn't. That's ok. So I replied "You said...". Yes, I 
could have written your name down, or I could have kept the entire posting, 
including your name at the end of the message, if it was there, and then 
pasted the name before the word "...wrote:".

That latter relatively easy  solution would have meant that you wouldn't be 
hopping-mad that I didn't say your name. I just didn't have any idea how 
much anger would result from not doing that.

Anyway, I will not offer an out-of-court settlement, and so when you sue me 
for not stating your name, and lose in the lower courts, I hope that you 
won't take it all the way to the federal Supreme Court. Because that would 
reduce the amount of time that I have available for participating in EM. :-)

Mike Ossipoff

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