You're absolutely right.
But being right isn't going to improve your circumstance.
This goes on on all lists and the only practical solution is to switch from
digest to messages.
You just aren't going to change people to solve your irritation.
Some kind of listbot would have to be invented.
                                                        Chuck

Eagles soar but a weasel will never get sucked into a jet engine !

On Mon, 29 May 2000 01:37:16 -0400, "Joan V." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>BTW, I wonder if it is possible for folks to really limit the amount of a
>post they "copy" when replying to that post. It strikes me that although
>there is a reminder at the beginning of every "digest" I receive to copy
>only what is absolutely necessary,it is very often the case that whole long
>messages are repeated, even several times in one digest, because several
>people are replying to the same message and all of them copy the whole
>thing.  That really gets to be a drag when you have to spend half the time
>scrolling down to get to the point! What do other people think about this?