Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!woods 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 Article-I.D.: hao.882 Posted: Sun Mar 18 18:49:53 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 19-Mar-84 07:58:20 EST References: <2609@brl-vgr.ARPA> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 21 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 -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!stcvax | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!stcvax} !hao!woods