Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!hao!ames!ucsd!nosc!cod!medin From: medin@cod.NOSC.MIL (Ted Medin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: PLEASE PLEASE LETS NOT INCLUDE THE ORIGINAL Message-ID: <996@cod.NOSC.MIL> Date: 19 Feb 88 17:07:23 GMT References: <880219013355.698153@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Reply-To: medin@cod.nosc.mil.UUCP (Ted Medin) Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego Lines: 13 In article <880219013355.698153@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA writes: > >Hey gang, I know its very easy to hit the right key so that the text of >the message you are replying to is included in your reply. But it >really isn't very sensible: it wastes net bandwidth, storage, and my >time. And by the time it gets three or four deep its absolutely absurd. >Lets not do it. (What prompted this was a 50 line message with only one >line of original text.) NO NO NO i get lots of messages and with just the answer i really have a time figuring out what the answer was all about. Now deleting unnecessary parts of the original is certainly a good idea but dont delete the original.