Re: Reply message format

--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Nicholas Bodley" <nbodley@...> wrote:

>
> What is sometimes called "promiscuous quoting" has long puzzled

me. Is

> editing the text copied into a reply so annoyingly difficult with

the

> popular mail software, or is it just simple laziness? (Surely, I

hope, all

> Qalamites know how to highlight blocks of text and delete them!)

Leaving large blocks of text was an overreaction on my part to a
criticism (probably justified)that I had been snipping context.
These two months represent my first online interaction.

Suzanne McCarthy