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[Gregory Nowak]

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.
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