It's been my experience that conventions vary on these things, and my
own practice varies with the occasion. Sometimes I answer a message
point by point, interposing my responses following each of the quoted
points referred to. If a single reponse is sufficient, I place it at
the top, including below the (clipped) relevant portion of the
original message so that my correspondent can know without looking it
up what the heck I'm talking about.
As for the editing process (I'm using Eudora), I usually just hit
Reply and work from the whole document, cutting first the Signature
stuff and then any portions that are not directly relevant to my
purpose. If I need to put anything back in, the original is neatly
tiled beneath my Reply document, easily available for copy-pasting.
Bottom line: Certainly, messages should be weeded, but beyond that --
to mix the metaphor -- there's more than one way to clip a cat.
What's the problem? (PLEASE, don't anybody answer that rhetorical
question! Let it die.)
Dan
>At 2:38 PM -0500 4/26/01, Carlson wrote:
>>Excessive quoting can be eliminated by selecting the important parts of the
>>text you want to respond to and THEN hit "reply". Never just hit reply
>>because it quotes everything, including all the advertising at the bottom of
>>the message.
>
>With Eudora, I have to hold down the shift key when I hit reply for this to
>work.
>Paul
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