> Robert said: "I agree whole heartedly. I have a correspondent that > never quotes the previous message. Many times I have to go to the > SENT mail box to find out what we were talking about. > RHB" Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough. I didn't ask people to refrain from quoting the pertinent text, just from reposting the the entire post with all the entire replies, including all the headers, footers, ascii art, digest info, and everything else that is unnecessary. It's like getting an email forward with 200 email address of the previous recipients before you actually get to see what the email is about. Trimming, while leaving in the necessary info is not only easy, but courteous. :-)