[Search wiki] Netiquette: Excessive quoting

[Rainer Blome]

Dear mailing list writers, the signal to noise ratio
has dropped to the new record of about 1 to 900 (one line of original 
content to over 900 lines of quotes, headers and signature).

Please let us quote only what we explicitly refer to, not the entire 
thread.

To quote RFC1855 "Netiquette Guidelines", found via 
http://re.search.wikia.com/search#netiquette:

 > Content of a follow-up post should exceed quoted content.

Thank you, Rainer


PS: Why is this bothering me?  Besides the waste of space and bandwidth, 
I'm a digest reader.

Digests are rendered useless because the list server sensibly puts a 
limit on the number of lines in a single digest issue.  It adds mails to 
an issue until the issue is large enough.  If a single mail is large 
enough, only that mail is included.

Digests are also rendered very hard to read because the amount of quotes 
makes it hard to find the original content.