At 03:04 AM 11/18/2002 -0500, Wayne Smith wrote:

>When people had 300 baud modems and really dumb mail reading software,
>every character seemed to count.  Now with faster links, what's the gain
>in worrying about including some junk
>at the end of a post?

The length of individual posts has become less and less an issue... unless
you receive a digest of the list and have to scrounge around for a few
hundred lines on content mixed throughout thousands of lines of data that
has been repeated over and over again.

There are some good reasons to limit quoting and some situations which
really require it.

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