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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net>]

On 3/17/2013 8:52 PM, Steve wrote:
> Yes! I was going to say that if someone else didn't. Firefox does that
> and I bet there are very few mail programs that don't do it these days.
> Click and drag your mouse over the part you need to comment on ( to
> highlight it) and then hit reply and write YOUR messgae.

Thunderbird and Gmail work this way, perfectly, every time.
Simply highlight the text/portion of the message you want to include
as quoted or nonquoted, as the case may be, material in your reply, 
click Copy or type Control-C, THEN click the Reply button and said text 
will be automatically inserted in your new message to the list. No need 
to highlight and delete unwanted material auto-quoted by default in your 
reply. You can also set the options in your email client not to include 
any quoted text in your replies.