From: dave y. 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair misc.consumers.house alt.engineering.electrical
Subject: Re: It is really hard ...
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:16:43 GMT

On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 15:26:28 -0500, Phil Munro 
wrote:

>It is really hard to follow a lot of posts these days from people who
>do not include at least part of the posts they are replying to.
>
>   My news reader does not make it easy for me to find those posts.  When
>I've marked posts as "read", they do not show again -- without some
>effort.  And the idea of news group postings is to be able to scan as
>quickly as possible.
>
>   It is normal, expected, and helpful for follow-up postings to include
>enough of the previous thread to give explanation of the topic.  I am
>posting this only to help those who are not (yet) aware of what they
>are doing.  Thanks for reading.  --Phil

Why don't you just use Agent as a newsreader?