In article >,
"Dave Bugg" > wrote:

> Those of you who use Google Groups instead of a real newsreader need to
> start quoting a bit of the text you are replying to. Since most newsreaders
> are configured to delete previously read messages in a thread, it appears
> that you are replying to something out of thin air. Please take the time to
> do it right.

Good advice. Note, however, that most newsreaders do not in fact delete
read messages, they just mark them as "read". The messages in fact live
on a newserver, and you *cannot* delete them, since they don't belong to
you. Your newsreader just keeps track of what you have read, and
doesn't show you anything you have already seen. There is often a way
to show them. I don't know how to do that in Outlook, though. Still,
if someone doesn't quote, I very seldom take the time to find out what
they are replying to.

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Dan Abel

Petaluma, California, USA