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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.flame,net.news
Subject: Re: Basenotes in Responses - (nf)
Message-ID: <882@hao.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Mar-84 18:49:53 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 18 18:49:53 1984
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  Some reasons people include the original article in their replies are:

  1) People at sites who did not receive the original will know what the hell
     the author is talking about (after all, the net is not perfect); 

  2) Sometimes knowing the exact text of the original is critical to understand-
     ing the reply;

  3) Articles sometimes arrive here (a backbone site) many days after the 
     original, and not all of us have memories good enough to remember
     everything that has been said in a discussion.

  I favor continued inclusion of passages from the original article. However,
I do agree that people often post the whole original when a relevant
sentence or paragraph would be sufficient.

			    GREG
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