Walt:

When you recover the where-with-all to keep up, and a newsreader which is
not prompting you to ask, "What is going on here?"--get back to me...

John

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:50:38 +0100, Walt Davidson wrote:

On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:38:23 -0700, John Smith
wrote:

Walt:

Get a decent newsreader, refer to the text at the bottom of my post you
question, that is all there is...

John:

My newsreader is RFC-compliant. It only looks for quotes that
*precede* any new text.

Anything that is quoted at the end of the message, trailing like a
long gray beard, is ignored.

HTH.