META: Proper quoting

I've noticed a trend to extreme over-quoting on the php developer mailing lists. (Not to mention top-posting, but that's another topic.) In the latest example, Derick' email could have been 88% shorter, if he had just cut down the contents to the essential pieces. While it takes the writer like 5 seconds to remove such parts, each reader will have to scan the non-essential parts and thereby spend a lot more time on it (e.g. 5s compared to n*3 seconds). Helpful links: <URL:http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/user/guckes/mail/edit.html#over_quoting> <URL:http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/user/guckes/mail/edit.html#full_quote> Good Example: <URL:http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=92888> Bad Examples: <URL:http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=92886> <URL:http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=92903> <URL:http://news.php.net/article.php?group=php.dev&article=92906> - Sascha