Mike Miller <mwmiller@CWNET.COM> writes:

> I've been off list for a few days and since the posts are trimmed I
> don't what's happening really.

I think the gist of the request was not to entirely strip out the prior
message, but only include the context or part you are responding to
(which is USUALLY not the entire message and even less likely part of
someone else's earlier response).

This is classic USENET "netiquette" but it dates to the days when people
read messages on 80x24 character screens, on devices that had no local
storage, and had 300 - 9600 baud connection speeds.  Hardly relevant
today, but some people still use dial-up, or other low bandwith, and
many still consider it standard courtesy.

Allan
--
1991 Vanagon GL