> Serge:
> >It is good internet practice not to cite all the message you are replying
> >to, as well as putting your text *after* the part of the message which
> >elicited the reply.

Don (Juan de) Baccus
> I think "pine" is the culprit. I've never used this mailer, but
> watched someone else use it once and was horrified to see that it
> dumps you into the editor with the full message you are replying to
> message. This results in posts such as you describe by default.

Au contraire, the default is to not include the message in reply. You
must enter a 'Y' to do so. So pine users, do this sparingly! And
remember that it's easy to edit a replied message also (such as above).

A message from your local pine user (a Pygmy Nuthatch?).

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Michael R. Smith
Univ. of Washington, Seattle
whimbrel at u.washington.edu
http://salmo.cqs.washington.edu/~wagap/mike.html