PLEASE Streamline Replies

[Charles Drago]

Friends,

Absent point-by-point rebuttal, replies to lengthy posts need not contain the entire original.

To expedite and enhance our appreciations of responses, one need only HIGHLIGHT and DELETE the original text located between

indicators, and then go for the gold starting at least one line below the final

.

Hope this helps.

Charles

Edited September 13, 2007 by Charles Drago

[Don Jeffries]

Charles,

I echo your sentiments. It becomes tedious to scroll down to the end of a previously read message (especially when that message is long, as it often is), in order to find a new reply. If you aren't really rebutting a specific point in a previous post, but are posting a general comment on the subject matter of a thread (as I often do), you can simply click on the reply button at the bottom of the page, instead of someone's previous post, and you won't even have to delete anything- you'll have a nice empty box to type into.

[Charles Drago]

Don,

Your way works quite nicely, too.

C'mon, everyone. Let's make this work as smoothly as possible.

[Evan Burton]

I agree with Charles, and also would add my opinion that you don't have to post the entire text of an article here. Just provide a link to the original, and that will be fine.

If you think the original text might be deleted for some nefarious reason, then by all means post the original here.

Otherwise - IMO ONLY - please, if it is long, just use a link, not the full text.

thanks!