also sprach Cliff Sarginson (on Fri, 19 Jan 2001 11:32:43AM +0000):

Replies can be helpful with their context, and it is hard sometimes to know how much to give - and on a busy list it is sometimes quite difficult to track back. However I do agree with you that people need to editorialise a bit when replying.

sure, there is nothing against including all of your message as i am doing right now, but there are people who will exchange 4-5 messages and each time write their comments on the top *above* the on so-and-so, so-and-so wrote header and that keeps on building up and then after a while i get a single email 20kbytes in size which includes the entire thread and a massive matchcount for /^(> )*. all i was saying is that the quoting feature is very helpful, but a lot of the people on this list don't know how to use it appropriately. turn it off then... martin [greetings from the heart of the sun]# echo madduck@!#:1:s@\@@@.net -- "know what I hate most? rhetorical questions." -- henry n. camp