Dear Dr. Day I think this is not always the case; sometimes you are responding to a question or comment and without the question or comment, just the answer, the answer makes no sense. My server (Netscape) gives me the "newest" answer first, so I do not have to scroll down and find the newest response; it is right there on top, just as my response to you is right on top. My problem is the opposite of yours. Someone posts a question, say: Who did John Rolfe marry? Without including that posting in the answer, just the statement Mataoka or Pocahontas. This means nothing to any of us. But if the question is there, then the answer has meaning. Sometimes these get out of hand, when you have ten or twelve responses as part of long thread. So, perhaps what we need is posters to think about what they are sending, and delete what is unnessary, rather than delete all previous posts. I have left your posting on this, so if someone missed yours, that person will know what we are tlaking about. Paul Finkelman -- Paul Finkelman Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law University of Tulsa College of Law 3120 East 4th Place Tulsa, OK 74104-3189 918-631-3706 (office) 918-631-2194 (fax) [log in to unmask] Douglas Day wrote: > List sheriff: > > Other lists I'm on have recently cracked down on the annoying, > thoughtless habit of automatically quoting when responding to a list. > It's an incredible waste of time and bandwidth. Might'nt you do the > same? > > When responding to a list, please turn off your automatic quoting > setting. It's a nuisance to have to scroll through the same quoted > messages time after time, only to find that the current respondant is > saying something profound like, "Gee, I hadn't thought of that," or > "Thanks for saying what I was thinking." > > -- > Dr. Douglas Day > Executive Director > Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society > 200 Second St., NE > Charlottesville, VA 22902 > 434-296-1492 > www.albemarlehistory.org > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html