Re: Is there a moderator?

From: Andrew (spamtrap_at_localhost.)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:35:11 +0000

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 14:27:40 GMT, "JohnF" <u85721@yahoo.com> wrote:

>Just out of curiosity, do you read the old text in every post or do you
>simply scroll down to the bottom looking for the new text knowing that
>you've just read the old text in the previous post? Or do you just go to the
>end of a series of posts and only read the last post so that reading the old
>text in order is important?

If you read a whole thread in order then it doesn't matter. More
usually people pick up messages that are in the middle of a thread and
a small amount of quoted text reminds you what is being discussed and
in particular shows precisely what you are responding to. It is all
about having consideration for the people who will be reading your
message, not being lazy and doing what is easiest for you just to save
yourself a couple of seconds. 

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