John McLean wrote:

"Lightman" wrote

The new Housing Act (shortly to take effect in a few days)

You need to configure your neewsreader (Outlook Express by the look of
it) better, so that people can differentiate the original text you're
replying to and your reply itself. When confronted with a solid block of
text like your message without " quoted" text, most people will simply
ignore your message entirely :-(