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This article is from the rec.arts.tv.soaps FAQ, by Margaret D. Gibbs gibbsm@ll.mit.edu with numerous contributions by
others.
23. How can you get the text of previous posts into your own post? (rec.arts.tv.soaps)
All newsreaders are different, but if you use "rn" or "trn",
type a capital "F" to follow-up to a post with quoting turned on.
Then edit the file to add your responses. (Anyone know if other
newsreaders handle follow-ups this way?) Tin uses a small "f" for
follow-ups; this also duplicates the text of the post being
followed-up. "nn" uses a small "f" for follow-ups, and you're asked
whether or not you want to include text from the original post.
If you're using ANU news, answer/extract/edit is the command to use
(or reply/extract/edit if you want to just reply to the poster rather
than posting yourself).
On the Youngstown & Cleveland Freenet, choose an editor, like Chet's
editor or vi, before you go into Usenet News. You choose an editor
by simply typing "go edit", which gives you a menu of the editors
available. Then, when reading a post, if you want to followup,
type "q" to quit the post, then "f" to followup. This automatically
throws you into vi (for example), with all of the old post set with
">"s on the leftmost margin. You then have to edit out those
portions you don't want to reply to, and use the vi commands to
insert text at the points where you do want to reply.
If you're on AOL you can quote by doing the following: (1) Highlight
the material you want to include; (2) Select copy from the edit menu;
(3) Click on "Reply to Group"; (4) Select paste from the edit menu.
The author information gets automatically appended this way (plus,
of course, the text selected).
If you're using WebTV you can fake quoting by using the cut-copy-paste
commands. (This info, plus more details, can be found at the web site
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8795/cutcopypaste.html.)
Cmd-A highlights the entire page (actually, in certain
situations it will highlight somewhat less than all the text on
the screen). Cmd-C copies whatever was highlighted to your terminal's
temporary memory, but always leaves the highlighted text right where
you found it. Cmd-X cuts the highlighted text if you're in a typing
area, such an e-mail or newsgroup posting screen. If you use Cmd-X on
a received e-mail or a viewed newsgroup post, it will only copy the
text, the same as Cmd-C. Cmd-V pastes the previously copied or cut
text, anywhere you would have been able to type (into an e-mail or
post writing screen, for example). After using cut-copy-paste,
to make it look like other quoted text you'll still need to break
up the paragraphs into single lines of text with a hard Return at
the end (making them non-wrapping), and a > character before the
beginning of the text of each line. Many e-mail and newsreader
programs do this reformatting automatically, WebTV doesn't have
this feature at this point.
When quoting from previous posts, please remember to edit out
everything from the quoted article - including the quoted person's
signature - except the points you're replying to. It's nice to
see a *little* of a previous article for a reminder, but many of
us have already read the whole thing before, and don't need to read
it all over again. It can be extremely annoying to see a page or
more of quoted text, and then only two original lines at the end
of the article. If you don't know how to use your editor, ask
someone at your site.
(Thanks to Bonniev Sculler, Rick Kitchen, Lynelle Foulk, Paul Halley,
Nancy Bachman, and MollyMolo)
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