Niko wrote:

I think RFC1855-style messages still look beautiful, and they have their place. But if you're too lazy to follow the gist of it, that's alright with me, but then put your content at the top, so I don't have to scroll down to Walhalla.

The best thing to do is to make the mailing list enforce trimming and quote- to original text fraction and reject top- and bottom-posts. It tends to have a very good effect on readability of the list especially when looking back a few months/years later. Stephan