On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:48:32 EDT, Christoph Hellwig said:

> I do most of the time.  But if everyone did all the time Linux
> development would become almost defunct.  Fullquotes are spreading like
> a cancer, mostly by people using thunderbird, evolution and similar
> crap.

What? There's mainline graphic MUAs that *don't* do "select big chunk of text
with mouse drag, hit delete"?

No, I suspect people are just lazy.  Just like the ones that say "Sorry for
top-posting, MUA XYZ makes me" - in the time it took them to type that, they
could have scrolled down to where they should reply and start typing *there*.