Jon Kåre Hellan wrote:
Cecil Moore writes:
Actually, with nested well-behaved newsreader
software doing the attributions, one doesn't
have to worry at all about such.

If I hadn't removed what Owen said, there wouldn't have been a
problem. But I accidentally left "Owen said", but not *what* Owen
said. Hence the confusion.

I haven't seen the posting but my point is that with
a well-behaved newsreader, there is no problem and no
confusion except in the minds of the uninitiated. If
we see the following: " Jon Kåre Hellan wrote:" and
there is nothing starting with "", then we know that
what you said has been trimmed and your attribution line
has been accidentally left intact. There's really no
problem and no confusion among the knowledgeable posters
and education might be a better solution than an apology.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com