CompuServe Messages

As a CI$ and internet user, let me offer one more possibility on the quoting. Most newsreader software will automaticly quote the entire message you are replying to including whatever is in it. Usually the headers are automaticly chopped off and the quoting offset and > are automatic. The problem comes in removing excess quotes. That requires editing time and effort manually. Too many people just type on a short response or insert a line here or there as they read it. I hope I am not guilty of that one. What bothers me most is the crossposting. Despite have very specific forsale groups for instance. Some people feel that if they crosspost to every group in the universe they will do better. Of course I have seen that here also, but even with Tapcis that would be harder. I find that makes it lesslikely that I will read that message. I do wish that CI$ would strip off the Internet headers when they forward mail onto here from the net. Most newsreaders can do that and it makes it hard to send a reasonable message to you from the other system. Of course that could be the purpose because this message to you is revenue producing to Compuserve and if I wrote this on the other terminal, their only revenue is your reading or worse yet downloading time. They aren't a charity after all; but that makes me wonder if they necessarily have my best interests in mind in all cases.