olitter (PawsForThought) wrote:

but the way I cut and paste is to highlight the
portion of the post I want to respond to (including the author's name)

Many software packages for email and news do use this method. I use
Agent for newsgroups and do the above but I have no need to highlight
the author's name as Agent includes that anyway. I then just click
Reply.

Same with Eudora for email. Highlight and click reply. No need to copy
and paste anything.

-mhd