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.
>
While I agree that they should take the time to do it right (which many
people have demonstrated is easy enough to do), perhaps those who have
their newsreaders set to automatically delete read posts should
reconfigure their settings too. Google Groups users don't need to make
up for your shortcomings. Real news readers are threaded for a reason
and you're defeting the purpose by automatically deleting read
messages. If you're interested in it, wait until the thread is dead or
has drifted afar to delete.