clf3678@ultb.UUCP (C.L. Freemesser) (06/24/89)
In article <1962@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> ins_adba@jhunix.UUCP (Dom Alvear) writes: >Chris, > >I haven't gotten the hang of adding the '>' stuff to other's messages, >but I'd like to thank you for posting that for me. I'll have to try >it out as soon as I get the time to fiddle with my computer. Again, >thanks for the help. > >Dom Well, I'm not too experienced on this either (I've only been on for 3 or 4 months), but all you have to do is instead of hitting "f" to reply, hit "F". This will add the message you are replying to, to the message you will type. You can just go through and edit it. Chris Freemesser, Rochester Institute of Technology | What I like : BITNET: %clf3678@RITVAX | 1) My Atari ST USENET: Just reply and hope it gets through | 2) My '77 Mercury "Another brilliant mind ruined by higher education" | 3) Coke Classic
FORSTER@cs.umass.EDU (David Forster) (06/29/89)
grumble grumble grumble! PLEASE!!! I DON'T LIKE SHOUTING, BUT THIS IS TOO MUCH!!! I just read a note which contained 60 lines of quoted material compared to 20 lines of new text. Some messages are even worse, like quoting a long request with all kinds of particulars, followed by a message like ``me too!!'' Arrrggghhhh!!! Now the author of ``Replying to messages (was the keyboard thing)'' suggests using `F' to include quoted text in messages!! Please, please, please, I don't like having to wade through all this stuff just to get to some text which may or may not interest me. Often it does, so I wade, but I really don't like it. I don't think I'm alone in this. (Yes, I know, some of you are going to suggest I use command <x> on some news software, which I may or may not have. That's not the point. The point is that it's wasted bandwidth, and wastes my time and yours.) Can people please summarise the quoted text in one line if the message they're responding to is longer than ten lines or so? Please? On the plus side of things, it seems that more people are starting to summarise more frequently. Thank you to those who do! Now I'll get off my soapbox. David Forster (forster@cs.umass.edu / forster@umass.bitnet / david%cousteau@cs.umass.edu)