I deal with this by going to the last message in the thread and reading
backwards to get everything. Sorry I am guilty of this but will try and do
better. It is a pain for me with digest also.

At 09:38 AM 12/14/2005, you wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I hope this doesn't come across as anal-retentive, especially since I
>haven't been participating on the list lately (too busy with my first
>semester of law school!).  I do enjoy reading everyone's messages,
>though, and I was wondering if I could make a request.
>
>Would it be possible for people to trim the messages that they are
>replying too?  Some of you include the entire previous message at the
>bottom of yours, and when you're replying to a message that did this
>too, it gets really long.  I get the digest version of the list, and
>it's really difficult to scroll down and find the new messages when
>all of the original messages are included too.
>
>(By the way, I totally understand that it's hard for some of you who
>use screenreaders or other technology to do this, and I don't mean to
>be critical, but if it isn't difficult for others of you, I'd really
>appreciate you taking the extra second).
>
>Thanks for your help!  I hope everyone has a great holiday, and a
>Happy New Year!
>
>~Joy~