Maybe I'm the only one around here who feels this way, but when I see a posting which begins with a whole bunch of inanely long quotes from previous postings, often going so far as to have whole nests of stacked >>>> symbols in front, I just go, *splat* and ctrl-C, and on to the next. Like, if we're reading this stuff regularly, we've got enough of a sense of the flow to be able to recognise someone's position from an abridged or abbreviated quote. For example, "Dolphin-crypt... an unexamined system (by analysts outside the community)..." does as well to convey the meaning involved, as posting a huge nest of paragraphs quoted entire. So in summary, what d' y'all think of trying to cut down on the swarms of >>>>>>>>>>> lengthy full-paragraph quotes and replace them with something a bit more compact, eh...?