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<title>Boost Discussion Policy</title>
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<h3>Use a Readable Quotation Style</h3>
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- <p>A common and very useful approach is to cite the small fractions of the
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- message you are actually responding to and to put your response directly
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+ <p>Don't <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting">
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+ top-post</a>; inline replies are the appropriate
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+ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style">posting style</a> for
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+ Boost lists.</p>
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+ <p>The common and very useful inline approach cites the small fractions of the
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+ message you are actually responding to and puts your response directly
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beneath each citation, with a blank line separating them for
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readability:</p>
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<blockquote>
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- <pre>
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-<i>Person-you're-replying-to</i> wrote:
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+ <pre><i>Person-you're-replying-to</i> wrote:
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> Some part of a paragraph that you wish to reply to goes
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> here; there may be several lines.
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> reply goes here; agiain there may be several lines.
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Your response to the second part of the message goes here.
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-...
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-</pre>
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+...</pre>
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</blockquote>For more information about effective use of quotation in
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posts, see <a href="http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html">this
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helpful guide</a>.
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<p>Revised
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- <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->04 December, 2006<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="38514" --></p>
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+ <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->07 November, 2007<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="39369" --></p>
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<p><i>Copyright © 2000-2005 Beman Dawes, Rob Stewart, and David Abrahams</i></p>
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at <a href=
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"http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</i></p>
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