I can understand it when they are using M$ Windows software, as that marks them as clueless newbies anyway. But the real shame is when it shows them using Pine, or even Eudora, that is perfectly capable of handling the trimming.

From: "Sean M. Doran" <smd@clock.org> NANOG must die because nobody seems to know how to remove the hundreds of quoted lines which follow their two lines of "original content".

WSimpson@UMich.edu Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32