Paul Narramore writes

Hello
This is my first post here but already I'm a bit puzzled. The note at
the top of the page states the post I'm about to reply to will be
quoted below.

As others have said, this is a newsgroup not a message board. The fact
that you are accessing it through gardenbanter makes this less obvious
to you.

Unfortunately, your software is not doing anything to help you. The
convention here 9as on most newsgroups) is in-line posting - ie, you
reply just under (not above) the bit you are replying to, and snip
(erase) anything that your are not replying to.

This means that if you are replying to a post which raises a lot of
different points, you reply to each point under where it is raised -
much easier than having to indicate in your reply which specific point
you are replying to with each bit of your reply.

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Kay