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From: tim@unc.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: What do YOU think?
Message-ID: <5387@unc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-Jun-83 13:53:09 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 15 13:53:09 1983
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A reminder to those of all beliefs:  When posting a reply to an
article, please include enough of the original so that we can
tell what it is that you are talking about.  The "readnews"
interface does not keep discussions together, and it is so much
trouble to find predecessors that it is usually not worth the
trouble.  In addition, some articles never make it to some sites,
and sometimes replies occur before originals.

To do this, you can save the article to a temporary file, then
read the article into your editor when replying.  If, like me,
you are using "readnews" and "vi", the sequence of commands is:

s- /tmp/reply
f-
[vi starts]
:r /tmp/reply
:!rm /tmp/reply

Sorry for posting this meta-flame to this group, but there have
been a lot of cases of insufficient context in replies lately,
and it's been seriously impairing readability.

Tim Maroney