On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Tim May wrote: > (By the way, Eugene, I had to snip out a vast chunk of included text > from you message. Please include only URLs for very long pieces. If > not, I'll have to killfile you as I have done with other serial > posters.)
I usually do that. I made an exception in this case because the original document is in Adobe Acerbat. I transliterated it. I did not expect somebody would have to excise it when replying. In this case top (or, rather, middle) posting does have its merits. I notice that diverse governmental authorities have been pulling content in an attempt to improve their PR (witness http://www.thememoryhole.org/policestate/iao-logo.htm ). Since we can't rely on central depositories like Google cache (which is shallow, anyway) we should retain copies at individual level.
