> Gus - I, and everyone else I'm sure, aren't trying to be rude.
> It really is extremely hard on the brain to deal with your quoting 
> style.

No, I'm not trying to be rude. It took me several posts to figure out
*what* you were doing, and then several more because my brain hurt
trying to sort out your comments from the rest. I have no problem
with the comments themselves.

> The (or a) reason why it matters is that there is so much to read 
> overall that being able to skim original text at speed and pick out 
> the new gems for response is crucial. A "buried" quoting style may 
> take quite literally 10 times as long to deal with, maybe even more in 

At least. I somewhat remember a study from my student days that text
written in either all caps or all lower case was very difficult to read
(in English). The assumption was that the normal reader used the correct
capitalization as queues to reading. And all correctness, in this
context, is a convention. Just like quoting text in email/news.
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