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Beth ... snip ...
Which was precisely what you said. The fact that you modified it somewhere deep in the bowels of an excessive (to my mind) post is not germane.
The following is a verbatim quote from my reply to you. The portions I quoted there were continuous, snipping was only done before and after, and was so marked.
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When the Romans left there were no Anglo-Saxons around - just Britons. The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes came later, and filled the power vacuum. IIRC Churchill covers it quite well. See "The History of the English Speaking Peoples".
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I more or less agree with you in general. I just don't think that excessive verbosity is especially useful. It may show off your typing ability. It doesn't especially expose your editing capability. It does tend to clog a.f.c.
Like source code functions, each message should be capable of fitting in a single screen. Or nearly so. The rule of 7 applies to usenet articles and to functional modules.
and somewhere This was part of a longer story told about intelligence gathering during the first gulf war. The storyteller wasn't very technically inclined...
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