> It > could probably be argued that the prohibition was more relevant in the days > before 99% of users read their email via clients which hide quoted content > unless it is explicitly expanded.
Yeah, gmail is aggressively unfriendly for this purpose. But if you can't be bothered to trim your quotes, I'd actually much rather that you top-post.
regards, tom lane
At least the students haven't discovered this list yet and are posting their homework assignments (like they do on chat channels).