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Doug Miller

In article , (Edward A. Falk) wrote:
In article ,
Doug Miller wrote:

It would be nice if you'd quote the post you're responding to so that other
people would know what the heck you're talking about...

Ahh, mea culpa. I've gotten too spoiled by a newsreader that threads
the posts and lets you know what post follows which, and lets you
easily see the previous post. Hadn't realized that not all newsreaders
do this.

Mine does that. The problem is that I'd apparently already read the post you
replied to, and so it had disappeared before I got to yours.

Be aware, also, that *nothing* in the NNTP protocol guarantees that posts will
arrive at any particular news server in anything even faintly resembling the
sequence in which they were generated -- or, indeed, that they will arrive at
all.

In short, you cannot assume that the post you're replying to will be available
for reading by *anyone*, no matter what client software they're using. That's
why it's best practice to quote the relevant portion(s) of anything you reply
to.