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from "Mike Lyle" contains these words:

Can't you highlught what you want to quote, then hit 'reply'?
[...].

Frayed knot. You have to hit "Reply group", and then, in the window
which appears, highlight and delete extranery. It's ok when you're
used to it, and in any case better than Google Groups, for which you
have to know a secret they don't tell you, for their own mysterious
Googular reasons. (You don't hit "Reply" in GG, or you'll get a blank
window and risk social pariah status. Instead, you have to hit "Show
Options" and then the "Reply" in the heading which appears: that
displays the message you're replying to and allows you to carry out
Christian editing.) GG doesn't even store your signature for repeated
use, as in


And this is progress?

The ZIMACS way has been a feature for more than ten years.

(Since more than ten years, Mme la Puce!)

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