I keep receiving posts like this with quoted text but no additions. Is my newsserver crap, or are loads of people really clicking reply and then forgetting to type anything before clicking send ? On my newsreader (xskim 0.84) you can click reply ; it then generates quoted text with no additions, and brings up an editor. If you then quit the editor without saving, the file, it keeps an empty reply which you must then remember to delete; if you forget, the empty reply gets posted. Other newsreaders may work the same way. They shouldn't. Your newsreader's broken. Have a look at The Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval page on
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7Ejs/gnksa/ for a list of good newsreaders for various platforms. (You can also have a laugh at how many points Outlook Express fails on.

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