Yeah, I do try to trim off long messages. Sometimes when reading a thread, people will just keep replying to replies of replies of replies and never snip off the old stuff. I guess I've been guilty, too, but lately I've tried to do better so that, as you say, the mouse wheel doesn't start smoking and fry my finger.

>>Why do you bottom post, BTW. Top posting is the best! Rah-rah-sis-boom-ba! Yea, top posting! <g>
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>Nope, your stuff goes on top, new stuff goes on the bottom - that's a habit you get after a few millennia of writing that way.
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>But do trim your quotes, if you don't like to scroll too much. I know I avoid threads which are dangerous to my mouse wheel.