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From: Peter Boettcher <boettcher@ll.mit.edu>
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"Thomas Clark" <thclark@REMOVETHISqinetiq.com> writes:

> I prefer to start afresh; quoting strands from previous
> posts where applicable. I guess that's a kind of interleaved
> response. It keeps threads shorter, too... It saves having
> to scroll through a whole load of irrelevant stuff.

Please don't do that.  Always quote at least a piece of the message
you are replying to.  Why?  Because CSSM is not a web forum at The
Mathworks.  It is a distributed USENET newsgroup, where messages get
lost (see the other messages in this thread), and different people's
servers and clients have different retention times, different methods
to fetch older articles in the same thread, etc, etc.

-Peter