In article Z_ZSg.4671$N4.1899@clgrps12,
Homer J Simpson wrote:

"Meat Plow" wrote in message
news
Show RFC where quoting is a shortcoming. It's up to the individual to skip
over or mute quoted content.

Consider the blind - who listen to Usenet. They have to wade through a
mountain of crap to hear one line - or sometimes none.

RFC 1855, "Netiquette Guidelines",

Section 3: One-to-many communication (mailing lists, netnews),

3.1 User guidelines

3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews

[bullet 10]: If you are sending a reply to a message or a
posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the
message, or include just enough text of the original to give a
context. This will make sure readers understand when they start
to read your response. Since NetNews, especially, is
proliferated by distributing the postings from one host to
another, it is possible to see a response to a message before
seeing the original. Giving context helps everyone. But do not
include the entire original!

I take this as saying that quoting, when used in moderation to carry
forward the essential context of a thread, is Good, and that when used
to excess (quoting the entire original, or the whole thread), is Bad.

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