Mark R Penn wrote:

In *most others*?? Did you check them all?

My apologies - should have said most others I subscribe to, mostly MS
PC based ones.

Thanks.


Only when the respondent is too dumb to operate their delete key.

Which removes the context for others.

Where do I say that the point being replied to should be deleted? In my
experience, the only practical way to keep stuff *readable* is to snip stuff
that you aren't responding to, and for your responses to the remainder to be
interleaved. Anything else is indicative of laziness, stupidiy, and the
arrogance to think that the reader has nothing better to do that scroll up
and down like a dummy, checking each new comment against each replied-to
comment, point-by-point.


... yet still leave the full context below for everyone else.

The full context, should I wish to read it, is in the previous post.


That avoids the issue where someone replies to a thread after
the messages have been removed from the servers, and all you see is a
single message with "" in the subject. ...

How many posts back to we go? Do you propose the everybody quotes every post
in the entire thread/branch, just in case something ages out on a server?


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