snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit

[Tim]

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 09:52 -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Do you give out tickets and fines, jail terms and excommunication for 
> the crime of posting?

No, but you get properly roasted for being a pain in the butt.

Every post sent to this server is sent to hundreds, perhaps thousands,
of people.  You increase the workload (and bandwidth costs) of the
server whenever you (that's the collective "you") post piles of
unnecessary quoting.

You also antagonise everyone on the list who has to scroll through pages
of CRAP, yes UTTER crap, when some dingbat quotes everything to add just
three or four lines that DO NOT need all the quoted crap.  The older
users, those who're most likely to be able to answer questions best, are
the most likely to just hit delete and ignore postings sent by
thoughtless users.

Top posting doesn't help.  You're still wasting bandwidth on a
ridiculous scale, and people still have to scroll up and down all over
the place to find out what the hell you're responding to.

Don't be a bloody nuisance.