snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit

[Tim]

Snip extraneous quotes from your posts to the list, dammit!  (You, and
everyone else doing this.)

It's a pain to read stuff when there's three pages of stuff that just
isn't needed in a message, and has to be scrolled past to find the
reply.

It's a waste of everyone's time, bandwidth, and storage space.  You're
not paying for any of that, including the list server's, so don't make
things more expensive for those that are.