Just to point out to everyone running Mail.app (and I think Entourage does this as well). By selecting the portion of the original message before hitting reply Mail will trim your response to contain only the selected text. I don't remember if it's the default setting, but it's controllable under the Composing frame of the Preferences Quicker and easier than cleaning stuff up after the fact by a huge margin. On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:44 AM, Alan Thompson wrote: > 'specially the freakin' ads. > cut 'em out! > > On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 12:25 AM, John Allan wrote: >> Learn how to use your emailer, you do not *HAVE* to send everything. >> It is a >> big waste of bandwidth.