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From: RAF@NIHCU.BITNET ("Roger Fajman")
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  Complete FROM:  field.
Message-ID: <8802181932.AA25500@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 18 Feb 88 17:59:51 GMT
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>     It might also help if the current trend of including excerpts and
> complete text of subject messages in responses wasn't so popular.  It seems
> as though messages are getting more and more verbose as time passes (please
> don't construe this to mean that I think messages contain useless input).

I like to see an excerpt from the message being responded to.  It helps
me keep track of the several threads of conversation that I am trying
to follow on multiple lists.