Trimming quoted lines (Was: copyright expiration as a spur to creativity)

On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Michael Scarpitti <mscarpit[_at_]asnt.org> wrote:

[172 lines of quoted text]
[followed by 9 lines of new text]

I would ask people who quote prior messages in their replies to please trim the text that you're replying to to only the pertinent material. Usually, there's not often a need to quote anything other than the immediately preceding message, and usually, not all of that.

We're starting to see messages like the above: 95% noise, 5% content.

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