In message .com,
lonelytraveller writes
If you had worked out how to use google groups properly, you would
understand why they decided NOT to include the original in the reply by
default.
But as has already been pointed out to you more than once, you can
reconfigure it to do so.

Alternatively, as I tried to point out in my other posting, you can use
other methods of showing context.
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Ian Jelf, MITG
Birmingham, UK

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