Which ignores my point completely - js.b1 should just learn to do things the correct way. For whatever (unimportant and irrelevant) reason, my newsreader did not download the original message, only js.b1's reply to something, but because js.b1 had not left ANY of the text to which he/she was replying to in there, his/her reply made no sense and so is rendered useless. For all I know, there may have been a dozen messages in the thread before his/hers and he/she could have been replying to any one of them. Without any context or any idea of who or what he/she is replying to, what sense does it make? Why take all that time and trouble to reply but not do it properly?