>Thank you. I've always felt that valuable content is obscured and much more difficult to find simply by the default inclusion of the previous message. In a threaded conversation including all or part of the previous message in a reply should be the exception, not the norm.
Mike, I disagree. It's a pleasure to read a reply from an experienced UTer/MVP who includes the original question - Q&A in one handy package - no need to bounce back & forth between messages.
Of course, it can be carried too far - Robert's & Ken's announcements being prime examples, and autoquoting messages 3,4,5 levels back - but I think in general the benefits, if it's applied intelligently, outweigh the drawbacks.
Regards. Al
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