Here are my personal reasons for quoting. I generally try to make sure that my reply doesn't contain more then one original message. Whenever I send messages to a list, I always quote the original message so that people such as myself know what message the reply goes with. If I just have a general message comment, I quote the whole message if it's fairly short. If I have comments throughout a longer message, I intersperse them in the original message, cutting out the unimportant stuff of course. I hope that sheds some light on why certain people always quote what they are replying to. Greg On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:52:51PM -0400, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > Actually, I believe you can turn off quoting, in pine or ask it to > prompt you as to whether you want it on or not for each message. > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
