On 19/01/2012, Malcolm Wallace
I find it completely unreasonable for a reply to a very long post to quote the entire text, only to add a single line at the bottom (or worse, embedded in the middle somewhere). In this case, there are 7 pages of quotation before your one-sentence contribution. (That is on my laptop. I dread to think how many pages it represents on a smartphone screen...) Usually, if I need to scroll even to the second page-worth of quotation and have still not found any new text, I now just delete the post without reading it.
Regards, Malcolm
Sorry. The reason that I have done so is that my primary mail client (GMail web) automatically folds quoted text (marked by ">" at start of line). (I'm not sure whether my secondary client (mutt) can do so.) When I first saw this message, I thought I would be slammed for top-posts (I have been guilty a few times). Anyhow, I shall keep this in mind.