On 2018-01-03, David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > > I think you quoted some text from ?kernel documentation, and > presumably agreed with it. I can't see what the fuss is about. > The first line of this post says "David Christensen wrote:". > Should I change it to "David Christensen posted:"? I had > assumed that we conventionally wrote the second when we meant > the first.
Or vice-versa. There is or was a member of this forum (whose Gallic-sounding name rather escapes me--was it Stéphane Monnier?) who systematically eliminates the attributions from his posts--well, at least the top-level attribution. Actually I believe he's a severe trimmer, so in my memory there is rarely if ever anything but a top-level attribution to eliminate. But then he takes care to sign *his* name at the bottom. Go figure. This irritated me to the point where I was going to ask him here why he eliminated the name of the poster to which he was responding while making a point of signing nominatively his own articles, but I didn't because I'm striving to be a mature individual. > Cheers, > David. > > -- "An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats." — George Orwell