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Besides a comment to edit the Subject line when replying, an additional comment to also suggest the "trimming out" of extraneous and unwanted Text from a replied to Digest would probably be appreciated by most members of this discussion list.
Of _all_ discussion lists, in my arrogant opinion, which concurs with some advice from Emily PostNews. On a couple of occasions, I've cut too much (resulting in a misattribution). And I'm sure that I'm just about alone in having a "Subject-Was" header to rename a thread when that's appropriate. (I didn't get the idea from any request for comments, but any broadcast e-mail is a request for comments unless it's spam, which is a request for munny). It would be more natural if I actually had to type my correspondent's words to quote them, but that's how it was, so it shouldn't surprise you that some people today wouldn't mind at all if it had stayd so. Even I will grow tired of my bullshit, especially if I'm reading the archives for something that I didn't want you to snip and unwittingly get a glimmer of why so many people lurk (or get sick of lurking and decide they want to pester the entire internet with get dick big schemes).