Tomes wrote:
"Phil Munro" wrote in message
...

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.

I use Mozilla Thunderbird and i think it would reduce your problems,
and it's free... it integrates with Firefox perfectly which is also free.

-bob