[ifets] Automatic quoting of text in a reply

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Lester Gilbert (L.Gilbert@canterbury.ac.uk)
Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:16:18 +0000 (GMT) 

From: Lester Gilbert <L.Gilbert@canterbury.ac.uk>
Subject: [ifets] Automatic quoting of text in a reply
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 08:16:18 +0000 (GMT)

Arun,

There was surely no need to quote the whole of Martin Owen's post to
IFETS just for you to say "I found this." I get IFETS as a digest, and
having to wade through reams of automatically quoted text in a reply
which references none of it is rather annoying, at the least. I read
most of my email via a dial-up link which nominally delivers 33.2kbps,
but turns out to be about 1kb per second, so the digest can take up to
a minute to download. Obviously, redundant text doesn't help my
patience. Instead of a constructive reply, I deliver this...

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Could I PLEASE appeal to all list users again, DO NOT quote the
original message unless you directly refer to it. Most of us are
academics, and (should surely) understand this principle.

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Regards, Lester

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