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On Saturday 28 January 2006 13:53, Simon Brooke stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: Actually, The only difference between GNU...
Don't apologize; just follow the instructions you have been given. Since you seem unable to follow a simple link (even when you are using a browser to view newsgroups), I'll post the content here:
This is Usenet, not a web forum (though it is also bastardized on several web sites). You cannot know whether the reader can see or has seen the previous posts, or, if they have been seen, whether the reader remembers what they were about.
When using groups.google.com to reply to a Usenet article (better to use a real newsreader), click on "show options" at the top of the article, then click on the "Reply" at the bottom of the article headers. This will quote the previous message in the accepted manner. Trim the parts of it that are not relevant to your follow-up.
Alternatively:
This isn't a google group; it is a Usenet newsgroup, and has nothing to do with Google. They happen to archive it, just...
1. Click the "Reply" link at the bottom of the article. 2. Click the "Preview" button. 3. Click the "Edit Message" button.
You can vote for new-changed features of groups.google at most important is the option: "Default quoting of previous message in replies".
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