On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:47:41 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:

I am interested to know under what circumstances snipping is totally
not practical, rather than just requiring a little more effort.

The circumstances I was envisaging was for those who lacked the physical
abilities and perhaps enabling software which would allow them to do this
in a quick and easy manner compared to a fully abled user.

A computer user with eg no hands and merely voice recognition software would
I think find it perhaps too time consuming and frustrating to give speech
commands to edit a long message rather than just posting a summary without
quoting the previous article.