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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

| I think he's referring to the automatic "<foo> babbled:" in your
| attribution line.  Some people might take offense at that if they didn't
| realise that it's put there automatically by your mailer and not
| something you wrote intentionally ...

FWIW once on another (non-technical) mailing list I trimmed the quoting
in a reply such that the first line was quoted from a few mails back in
the thread.  Like this

On <date> <guy1> said:

|> Something <guy2> said

I got a very angry reply from guy1 who wrote the mail I directly replied
to saying he had never said the stuff I quoted and what was I trying to
pull, I could ruin peoples' reputations like that, etc.

Obviously I explained it was just trimming and the first line was
autogenerated, but afterwards I thought that the auto reply string
really is making a pretty uncertain assertion about what is actually
quoted since I generally trim quoting pretty hard.  I found I couldn't
seem to turn it off in Thunderbird, so I changed it since then to only
say what one can be pretty sure of in a reply...

- -Andy
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