[ale] Reply trimming (was Re: [OT] Weird Trick to make Debit Card Scan)

[Tom Freeman]

On 03/01/2007 05:50:11 PM, JK wrote:
> Christopher Bergeron wrote:
<<snip>>
> Also, as an aside:  I trimmed about 100 lines of quoted
> cruft from this reply, half of which was boilerplate
> ALE footers.  Not such a big deal, granted; but there've
> been other recent instances where I had to scroll through
> literally thousands of lines of quoted BS to get to a
> two-line response. I'd never advocate top-posting... but
> back in the Old Days, trimming quoted material down to the
> part one's reply actually addressed was part of basic
> netiquette.  Can we revive it, perhaps?
> 
Thank you for the nudge. I'll try to do better at trimming in the  
future.