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From: frank@hfsi.UUCP (Frank McPherson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: What to buy??(numbercruncher)
Message-ID: <428@hfsi.UUCP>
Date: 22 Jun 91 12:22:33 GMT
References: <63@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun20.015324.10408@sugar.hackercorp.com> <78@ryptyde.UUCP> <1991Jun20.162015.28677@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <83@ryptyde.UUCP>
Reply-To: emcphers@manu.cs.vt.edu (Frank McPherson)
Organization: HFS Inc., McLean VA.
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In article <83@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes:
>
>I'm sorry, but I'm new to Usenet and Unix. I use a simple Cut & Paste scheme
>and since I DON'T want to have to Paste in each individual line, the best
>I can do is to quote it. I'm sure there's a better way to do this (the F
>command?). I'll try something new. However, it has recently come to my 
>attention during a recent post (trying to guess who is who) that I am
>recognized by my infamous "Responding to the following" header, and now
>that I have an identity here, I'm not sure I want to give it up! :-)

Which newsreader are you using?  I've also had problems following what    
you're trying to say because of your quoting scheme.  All you do to get   
the quotes like I have them in this article when using the "rn" newsreader
is use an uppercase 'F' to followup to it.  The command for the nn        
newsreader may be similar.  Please try it sometime.  It's much            
easier to read this way.  When you've done that, you just delete the 
lines you don't feel the need to respond to, and away you go.  
(Deleting lines is good.  It's annoying to have to read an article 
fifty bizillion times because people include the whole thing when 
they're replying to it.  

-- Frank McPherson                  INTERNET: emcphers@manu.cs.vt.edu --