Rex B wrote:
When you are having a conversation with someone, do you insist that
the other parties repeat everything said so far on the subject, then
tell you their reply?
John Busby wrote:

The comparrison fails here because often more than one person is
responding to a post. Therefore it is nice to know what part or
which post is being answered.
I use Netscape and the threads are fine but with 3, 4, or a
dozen replying and sometimes to different parts of the post
it makes a LOT more sense to quote below the appropiate cliped
part of the original.
...lew...