From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-12-14T02:25:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie questions

Dav Jones wrote:

> OK that makes a lot less sense...I don't recognise many of those
> commands.
> How does the source file come into that?

Mr. Jones, you've posted in such a way that you have started a new thread,
which breaks the original sequence of messages, and you haven't quoted any
of the text that you are replying to, which makes it difficult to determine
what you are replying to. This is why no one has responded to your reply
until now.

Notice about this message that I have quoted your original message, so you
and other readers can see what I am replying to. If you adopt this style,
if you quote a bit of the message you are replying to, then other readers
will be able to tell which message you are replying to, including its
author.

Usenet relies to a great extent on "threads", that is, messages that are
connected. Usenet also relies on your putting a bit of the message that you
are replying to in your own message, so people can put what is being
discussed into a context.


-- 
Paul Lutus
http://www.arachnoid.com