[LMB] EXCESSIVE QUOTES (WAS: List Love)

[Peter H. Granzeau]

At 11:14 AM 3/1/2008, James M. BRYANT G4CLF wrote:
>Marilyn Traber, to make a point, posted a huge
>mess. As quote pixie I'll allow that, once
>("Yeltar! You may be needed!"), but do point
>out, in answer to her enquiry, that if you
>get the digest and want to save a particular
>post you can copy it, paste it into an
>outgoing piece of mail, and then save but not
>send it.
>
>This takes twenty seconds. I do it all the time.

If you use a _good_ mail client, such as Eudora 7.2 or earlier (avoid 
Eudora 8,0 ff., as it is pure evil), or even Agent 4.2, you will find 
all you have to do is highlight the part to which you wish to reply.

>I very rarely "Reply to" when I post. I start a
>new email and past what I want to quote into it.
>This ensures the right subject line and destination
>and also that only the material wanted is quoted.

When replying to a Digest, it is also necessary to change the subject 
line, of course.

I know why people get digests--it saves one's mailbox from being all 
clogged up (although everyone's threshold of what constitutes 
"clogged up" is different, too), but they are definitely much more 
difficult, when one wishes to reply to a message.