In article , "stuart noble"
says...

You'd be expected to read and probably remember e-mail - it comes to you
personally. Not so with newsgroups. You might well be reading hundreds of
different threads - and not from the start either. Hence the need for a
*short* summary.
So, is there a newsreader that skips quoted text, and that would make
top/bottom posting irrelevant? Maybe newer versionsof OE? I'm still on 4.72

Gravity can display a fixed number of quoted lines (default four, but
you can set it to zero) and you can toggle this feature with a single
key-press while reading.