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Also known as: quoted text
Including part of the article being answered, each line prefixed with a greater-than sign, so that a follow-up reads sensibly on its own. Convention is to keep only the passages actually being addressed and to write beneath them. Quoting an entire long article to add one line at the top is a standing complaint on text groups; cutting the quote back down is called snipping.
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