>Imagine reading my message, in the middle of a long thread, directed to you. What if you had made many comments, and I was responding to one of them?
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>I thought of that, also - impossible as the methods of quoting vary (as above). I think Michel has done a good job with it. Still, dropping a lot of the massive quoting with a 'Me too!' or a 'LOL' added to the end would be a nice goal. User training, maybe? At least we now have the option to quote or not before hitting the Reply.

Wellllll,
I'd think that just your "regular" quotes - you know, the stuff starting with ">>>>>>>>>>" and such, would be good enough.

On the other hand, Michel, in his reply to me, indicates that he doesn't tamper with message content (my paraphrase).
My thought was to let the user decide, with an option to leave (regular) quotes in or remove them.
I know that several people used to complain about the wasted bandwidth of quoted stuff, and I see that many still have 'member... trim your quotes' in their "signatures", so it looks to me that it would have some value.

cheers