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From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: My turn to ask questions.
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Date: 2 Dec 89 21:37:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com's message of 2 Dec 89 04:59:20 GMT

In article <1380@lakesys.lakesys.com>,
johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant) writes:

   1) When following up to a post, I am not given an option to include the 
   original message, but I am asked if I want to include a prepared file, so 
   what I do it type:

   Prepared file to include [none]: /news/news/newusers/questions/305

   Is there an easier way to do this than type out the filename?

Yes.  It depends on your newsreader, but in rn and gnus the 'F'
command will include the original message in the body of your followup
article.  You'll have to edit it down of course to trim out
unnecessary stuff, like the original poster's .signature, unimportant
bits of the original message, etc. so that inews won't complain
about too much quoted text.

--Ed