"Rick" wrote in message
...
Hey Guys,
Being such technical experts as we all are, the concept of "quoted text"
in
newsgroup articles is far less complicated than any technical subject
related
to antennas or grounding.
Simply, it means when replying to a newsgroup article, the quoted text is
the
text from the previous articles that you leave in your posting when you
send
it.
Being that most of us read several of the articles in the thread at the
same
time we really do not need all of the previous article to see what you are
talking about. In fact only a few lines would show us what portion of the
text you are commenting on if even that.

When you quote the entire article, we have to hunt through it to see where
you
are placing your comments or scroll all the way to the bottom to see where
your few lines of info lie.

I just received a 78 line article where the poster added 3 lines of his
own
data..........

If you find this subject difficult to understand, all I am saying is when
you
reply to a posting, just highlight all or most of the previous material
and
hit the delete key. Not really difficult.

Thanks,

Rick K2XT

and when you completely change the topic (in this case from ledge to a news
group scolding) you should change the message topic, like the previous
poster did.