This technique is especially useful when responding to a single point in a message.

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To improve clarity, you may insert a "<snip>" or <delitia> note where you have cut material from the original author's message.

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A short description of what you have cut out, such as "<snipped description>" may be helpful to others (especially on a mailing list) who did not see the original posting.

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Avoid posting messages containing the entire text of a preceding article. Nobody likes reading a long message for the third or fourth time, only to be followed by a one line response: "Yeah, me too".

In Eudora, if you would like to reply only to specific text in an email message, do the following:

1. In a received message, click and drag to highlight the text you want to include in your reply.

2. Once the selected text is highlighted, choose Reply from the Message menu or click the Reply icon . The selected text now appears in your message reply.

3. Add your response.

4. To send, click Send.