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This may be a dumb question, but here goes. How does one snip messages(to
reply to) in newsgroups?
Thanks

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Errrrr...erm... s said:

> This may be a dumb question, but here goes. How does one snip messages(to
> reply to) in newsgroups?
> Thanks

To get rid of unnecessary content and/or reduce the overall size of a post.

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I presume you are talking about snipping irrelevant pieces
of a message. Just highlight and delete the parts to be
snipped, and add <snipped> where you have removed parts.

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:38:26 -0500, in
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s scrawled:

>This may be a dumb question, but here goes. How does one snip messages(to
>reply to) in newsgroups?
> Thanks
>

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On Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:38:26 -0500, "s" <me> wrote:

>This may be a dumb question, but here goes. How does one snip messages(to
>reply to) in newsgroups?
> Thanks

I'm using AGENT and all i usually do is highlight the part i want as the quote
and then click "post follow up".


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s wrote:

> This may be a dumb question, but here goes. How does one snip
> messages(to reply to) in newsgroups?
> Thanks

As mentioned; just highlight and delete irrelevant sections that
aren't necessary to understand your reply, and the point to which you
are replying. Be careful not to alter the meaning of other people's
posts, and acknowledge any removal with a <snip>.
Watch your attributions, so that it's clear who said what. In a long
thread, it's really a two-part process. First, select the text you are
going to remove, and delete it. Then, go back up to the attributions,
and remove the names of people that are no longer quoted, but be sure to
leave the ones that *are*.
(In a properly-quoted reply, there should be one less 'attribution'
or 'generation' mark (like >) beside the poster's name, than their
remarks.)
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