From: don-aitken@freeuk.com 
  
 On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 14:41:16 +0000, Whiskers 
  wrote: 
  
 >On 2006-01-18, Hank D.  wrote: 
 >> "Mara Guida"  wrote in 
 >> news:1137587570.899791.118730@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com: 
 >> 
 >>> Whiskers wrote: 
 >>>> On 2006-01-17, Mara Guida  wrote: 
 >>>> > So, I think I will not be breaking any "rules" by doing 
 >>>> > something like: 
 >>>> > 
 >>>> > On  John Doe requested his words 
 >>>> > not to be archived, but I chose to ignore that 
 >>>> > request (will killfile John Doe if asked to do so): 
 >>>> 
 >>>> Some might see that as "flame bait" or "trolling". 
 >>> 
 >>> I wouldn't want that; thank you for the warning. 
 >>> I think I'll stick with the simple: 
 >>> 
 >>> On  John Doe xnay'd: 
 >>>>bla bla bla 
 >>> ble ble ble 
 >> 
 >> Why not leave the "John Doe" part out if person doesn't want to be 
 >> recognized/archived? 
 >> 
 >> cheers 
 > 
 >Generally, people seem to either honour or ignore the xnay, and make no 
 >other mention of it either way.  Any other behaviour will look 'odd'. 
 > 
 >If you don't honour someone's xnay, be prepared to get requests to 'nuke' 
 >your own article from Google Groups if you include whatever it is the OP 
 >doesn't want archived. 
  
 Ok, I'm prepared. I have *never* had such a request, in more than 
 seven years of fairly heavy use of Usenet. Don't be misled by the 
 habits of the groups you frequent into supposing that the same goes on 
 elsewhere. 
  
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