In message , Tim Ward
writes
"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
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"Tim Ward" wrote in message
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(3) if you bottom post and leave more than about ten lines quoted before
your new material there's little chance I will read what you say *at*
*all*.

Your loss.

I'm not claiming everybody behaves like me, but I *do* claim that there's
nothing special about me, so it won't just be my readership that's lost. The
whole point of writing something is, usually, that you hope people are going
to read it ...

you just answered your own point there

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geoff