dave y. wrote:

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:26:28 -0500, Phil Munro
wrote:


It is really hard to follow a lot of posts these days from people who
do not include at least part of the posts they are replying to.

My news reader does not make it easy for me to find those posts. When
I've marked posts as "read", they do not show again -- without some
effort. And the idea of news group postings is to be able to scan as
quickly as possible.

It is normal, expected, and helpful for follow-up postings to include
enough of the previous thread to give explanation of the topic. I am
posting this only to help those who are not (yet) aware of what they
are doing. Thanks for reading. --Phil

Why don't you just use Agent as a newsreader?
I use what I use, and since my life does not revolve around the few
news groups I scan, I continue to go with what I use -- which does a
lot of things nicely. But let's not get into what we all should be
using for our browsers/readers. Rather, it is a normal thing to give
a reference to thread info, I think.
As always, thanks to all who comment on this. --Phil

--
Phil Munro Dept of Electrical & Computer Engin
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, Ohio 44555