# Web Hosting with Lots of Storage

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-hosting-with-lots-of-storage/565670>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 29, 2010, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-hosting-with-lots-of-storage/565670 "2010-12-29T01:33:18Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-hosting-with-lots-of-storage/565670/21 "2010-12-30T08:55:51Z")

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Well, sure, if you truncate it there, that’s the question. If you don’t, it’s not.

That’s called quote-mining, by the way.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-hosting-with-lots-of-storage/565670/22 "2010-12-30T14:35:11Z")

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I just re-read this thread and realised what a bloody pedant I’ve been, on what is only a tangential and trifling part of the question. Sorry about that, honestly.

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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-hosting-with-lots-of-storage/565670/23 "2010-12-31T03:38:57Z")

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> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Well, sure, if you truncate it there, that’s the question. If you don’t, it’s not.
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> That’s called quote-mining, by the way.

No, it’s not quote mining if the small quote conveys the intent of the original quote. I’ll provide another from the same poster:

> [@](#):
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> I am not looking at using space as backup

It’s not that you are being pedantic. You are somehow reading something that isn’t there.

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2010, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/web-hosting-with-lots-of-storage/565670/24 "2010-12-31T09:06:39Z")

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May I also offer then offer apology for the misunderstanding on my part, and to have based a whole argument upon said misunderstanding.

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