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As quoted from <895@mcgill-vision.UUCP> by mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse):
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| > There should be a better way of providing what is essentially a
| > history of a given mail exchange without [including previous messages
| > in a current one].
| 
| It's known as "editing".
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Something tells me we're about to go off at a tangent into the News/Notes
wars...  Seriously, it would be nice if mail had References: lines, and there
were a mail reader that could split the screen and show referenced messages
in another window.  Alas, that would require a consistent method of saving
mail.  (Hmmm... have to work on it after I get my copy of Gnu Emacs.  Gnu+MH
ought be a good starting point.)

Forget "editing" -- you can't even force it.  (See, for example, 2.11 inews.)
People will just keep on including everything and using "mailer hate lines" to
make their articles even bigger & more useless, and then complain that it's
the fault of the mailer.  (...you can lead a netter to knowledge, but you
can't make him think.)

It started out in news.  It has spread to the Fidonet; Elm spread it to the
mailers; and it's out of control.  We need REAL suggestions as to how to stop
it (and cc: FidoNews on it, they're desperate!).
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