Hi all, See, now that I've delurked I can't stop. Damn. Anyway, a number of people have written about reducing the amount of needless quotation on the list, particularly for Digest users (among whom I count myself). I think that one of the reasons that there is so much wasted space is that, through no fault of their own, people don't know their way around their email programs and thus don't know how powerful the reply features are. I think that the mailserver script suggestions that have been made are good, but they take away the need for a user to understand even the basics of the etiquette, not ot mention functionality, of replying. Of course, it is arguable that people shouldn't *need* to put that effort in, but since every other interaction structure has some things that need to be done manually, I don't see why email should be all that different. (This is a little like the automatic seatbelts vs manual seatbelts argument). Anyway, here are a couple of suggestions for people to reduce the amount of needless quotation in their replies. Simply changing settings from quoting the original email *within* the reply as opposed to *after* the reply shows you how much extraneous material you are sending.You can then cut away what you don't need. Some programs just provide 'include previous email in reply' rather than allowing you to choose, in which case once you have hit reply you should cut away material before responding. Better yet: In Eudora - not sure about other programs but I would suspect this is the case - there is an undocumented feature that if you simply highlight the piece of an email that you want to respond to, *then* hit reply, the resulting reply email only has the part of the email that you highlighted. This does away with the need to even cut away what you don't need. And now I *really* must dash. Until anon, Sean -- E. Sean Rintel Communication Department University at Albany State University of New York Albany, NY, USA, 12222 http://www.albany.edu/~er8430/