On 2018-01-09 13:30:47 +0000, Pepi said:
> On Mon, 08 Jan 2018 11:27:32 -0600, Professor Fate wrote:
>
>> On 2018-01-08 11:01:52 +0000, Pepi said:
>>
>>> On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 10:30:37 -0600, Professor Fate wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 2018-01-03 20:29:33 +0000, Pepi said:
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, 29 Dec 2017 14:09:06 -0600, James McMasters wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Several hundren years ago, when I was in high school, we were
>>>>>> required to see a film called Signal 30, a sometimes slightly gorry
>>>>>> CHP's film about what's happens in accidents when someone doesn't
>>>>>> drive safely. Can't find it anywhere. Might someone care to popst it
>>>>>> if you have? TIA!
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKOoenqbOk
>>>>
>>>> You might be more interested in watching Hell's Highway: The True
>>>> Story of Highway Safety Films, a 2003 documentary about the people who
>>>> made Signal 30 and many other similar movies. A must for anyone who
>>>> was in driver training and had to see S30. Spoiler: these guys weren't
>>>> entirely on the up and up, if you know what I mean, and I think you
>>>> do.
>>>
>>> And you're following-up to my post because...?
>>
>> Because there are extensive clips from Signal 30 and similar films in
>> the Hell's Highway documentary. But, sorry, thought I was replying to
>> McMasters' post, not yours.
>>
>> I don't quite understand the indentations above. The para about Hell's
>> Highway is my writing, but it seems to be attributed to Pepi.
>
> No, indentations are correct. A quotation mark (usually ">") is added by
> each poster. E.g., ">>>>> Several [...]" tells me that there are now five
> responses to the thread, or rather, it will be when I send this (unless
> someone else posts something before me, in which case this message will
> be on the same level as that one, but one step down, so to speak).
>
> The topmost quotes, are added first, by each poster, then the quoted
> text. So, for each poster, a new layer of quoting is added, which makes
> the indentations look like this.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> original
> first reply
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> original
>> first follow-up
> second follow-up
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> original
>>> first follow-up
>> second follow-up
> third follow-up
>
> All text from previous posts are copied as quoted text in the new follow-
> up, unless you choose to remove it, which one ought to do when it gets
> very long.
>
> The less indented lines at the top are the headings for each follow-up
> post, but in reverse order, of course. "On bla someone said:" and so on.
>
> For educational purposes I left everything intact, but I usually only
> quote the part to which I am responding. Not the rest. This is per Usenet
> etiquette to do so, especially in longer threads with many different
> topics.
>
> In Pan (my newsreader) it is simple. Select the partial text to which I
> am responding, hit F on the keyboard. A new message window appears and I
> can start typing. Then Ctrl-Enter to send it off.
>
> Note also my use of [OT] in the Subject, for "Off-topic". We are no
> longer discussing vintage film, so... :)
How very enlightening!
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