This is just an excerpt of the Charter page. So I'm just posting a bit of
it here.
Then there's a link there to the index and the full FAQ.
The last section of the FAQ's pages, has help as to "munging".

As to topic, when first posting and if possible in a signature line, it
helps to put your type of cancer, grade and stage (where it has spread
to), if you know.

As to quoting and bottom posting, this little free program
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/
seems to help a lot with that. It places the cursor at the bottom of the
text (is my understanding) and it shows the author and their text in a
different colour from a different author/text, in the same post.
So I would think it is easier to see which "author" line to delete with
the relevant text (same colour). But it only works with OE (Outlook)

Oh, and if there seems to be "news" about treatments, I usually post them
on news:sci.med.diseases.cancer
Previous posts about treatments on the same newsgroup?
The archivescan be searched, by using this
http://groups-beta.google.com/advanced_search?q=&\
Or when subscribing to that newsgroup, download about 6 months worth of
posts.

And, as to "alternative medicine", if I find a useful and/or new article,
I post to news:sci.med.diseases.cancer
And I see that Peter Moran's just posted a new link to an article that he
wrote about that on news:sci.med.diseases.cancer
HTH
J

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