list quoting policy?

[Eric Schwartz]

Is there a list quoting policy?  I ask only because I get the digest 
form of gnucash-user, and it seems several people are replying in a 
top-posting style.  Personally, I find that annoying, but I don't mind 
if the list thinks it's okay.

What I really hope is NOT okay is the practise of quoting every single 
email in the entire thread in their entirety.  In Vol 4, Issue 6, there 
was a reply by Rene Gerlich that was a total of 391 lines long, of 
which a whopping 24 were original.  I don't have anything against Rene 
personally, and I'm sure he's a fine person.  But when 94% of your 
email is quoted text, I think it's fair to consider that you aren't 
trimming your quotes.  It's very tedious to scroll though all that 
reply text, at first wondering if there are any comments in there worth 
reading, and then just wishing it were over.

I've been increasingly irritated at the decreasing S/N ratio on the 
list, so I'm sorry if this comes off as too harsh.  Regardless of if 
you top-post or not, can we all please trim the text we're quoting to 
just enough to maintain context?  Remember, the lists are archived, so 
it's not like you can't just refer back there if you need to.

-=Eric