Your description of the action of the Reply function in your last
paragraph is not always true; it all depends on the mail software
you are using.  On one of the systems where I have an account the
REPLY TEXT function works exactly as you describe; on the other it
doesn't.
 
Have you seen Terry Carroll's Copyright FAQ?  It is available via
anonymous FTP from  CHARON.AMDAHL.COM in the directory
 /pub/misc.legal/Copyright-FAQ, filenames part.1 - part.6
 
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