request for opinion on alternative operand/operator classification

[Kai Henningsen]

dj@redhat.com (DJ Delorie)  wrote on 25.10.04 in <200410252130.i9PLU6s2028328@greed.delorie.com>:

> The advice below doesn't apply when the new text isn't a response.  I

Unfortunately, yours was a bad example in that it clearly *was* a  
response.

And if it weren't, it is rather unlikely that ...

> conversation when appropriate, but sometimes the quoted text is not
> part of the new conversation, but merely a "figure A" included for

... this is actually useful.

> reference (i.e. sometimes the quote works best within or following

Within, surely. Following ...

... no.

> But, selective quoting is almost always preferred over bulk-including
> the previous message.

Very much so.

MfG Kai