"Phil Munro" wrote in message
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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


Here is what I do Phil. I use the View: Hide Read Messages (which is what I
suspect you are doing, although it might carry a different naming). If I
wish to go back into an already read part of the thread I simply change the
view to Show All Messages. Easy as cake.
Hoping this might help,
Tomes
(who wishes that top posting was the norm in _these_ NGs as it makes the
most sense to me)