You mean like the Burning van II post where i have all the responses but
none of the original?

I still have no idea when this shin-dig is going to take place because...
it's been trimmed out of every message.

A bit of quote is a very gute thang.

tim in san jose

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Brennan" <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 10:12 AM
Subject: NVC: quoting

> Sigh, I guess I'm going to be supporting the digest folks soon.
>
> I'm getting tired of reading some folks messages where a previous
> message has been quoted. Except I have a different problem. Some of
> these folks quote some of the text, but it has nothing to distingush
> that which is quoted, and their replies look like they are part of the
> original.
>
> I've seen it on several folks now (BenT is one, Stan's another, but it
> isn't limited to them).
>
> If you are going to quote someone else's message, please SEPARATE your
> message from there's so that it's easier to parse. Better yet, don't
> bother to quote. On other listservs, the lesser volume of traffic means
> that it is can sometimes be important to quote, to make sure folks know
> what context your reply pertains to. Here, on the vanagon list, the
> traffic is so high, that we really don't need the quoting most of the
> time (except perhaps by digest or archival replies...)
>