How do I quote correctly in Usenet?

This text is an approach to translate the German article "Wie zitiere ich im Usenet?" by Dirk Nimmich into English. It is not intended to be a word-by-word translation, but rather to grasp the content of that article and explain it in English. The original is available from <http://www.afaik.de/usenet/faq/zitieren/> or <http://learn.to/quote/>.

1. Attribution

1.1 How do I attribute a quotation? 1.2 What should be part of the attribution, what shouldn't?

2. Quoting and Answering

2.1 How much should I quote? 2.2 What should not be quoted? 2.3 Why should I place my response below the quoted text? 2.4 But my newsreader places the cursor above the quoted text. 2.5 Why should I not attach the entire original article in the end? 2.6 A blank row between the quoted text and my response? Why? 2.7 How do I mark text I left out? 2.8 May I reformat the quoted text? 2.9 What about correcting spelling errors? 2.10 What's up with those "broken" special character?

3. Quotationmarks

3.1 Which character should I use to mark the quoted text? 3.2 Should I insert a space after the Quotationmark? 3.3 Doesn't it make more sense to use Initials as Quotationmarks?

4. How do I quote other resources?

5. Copyright

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