Nasty Habits in Replying to Emails

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 11:10:17 -0400,
   Mickey <binarynut at comcast.net> wrote:
>Gentleman!!! when replying to a email LEAVE the contents of the 
>orignal poster intact so the next person that reads the email can 
>read what the poster had to say.

That is not the process for these lists. You are only supposed to keep 
enough of the message you are replying to, to provide context for the 
reply. This is normal for techincal mailing lists.