On 2/07/2015 4:21 a.m., Christopher Swingley wrote:
> It's been six months since I've posted this and I'm seeing more and
> more useless cruft hanging off the end of replies to the List.
> Apologies to the author of this message, not trying to pick on anyone,
> etc.:

If you set your email client correctly, you have the quoted text at the 
top and the reply beneath, this also reminds you how much guff there is 
and prompts you to trim it a bit. However quoting correctly but leaving 
8 paragraphs of text for a 3 line reply is also quite time consuming for 
people reading the messages as they have to scroll down to the bottom to 
read the actual relevant text.

If you're only writing 3 lines you should only quote a similar amount 
just so people can pick up the context.

Michael
NZ