Bob F wrote:

Why do you have your line-length set to 50-odd characters instead
of, say, 72?

Maybe because then it can go through a few cycles of not being trimed
by people following up before it starts making everyones newsreaders
add blank lines.

I reformat ALL of the text that I quote so that it remains properly
formatted.

AND - for those dumb-ass full-quoters, you shouldn't be dragging the
same text through multiple chain-replies anyways. These are not email
conversations were having. This is usenet, where the entire thread is
ALWAYS AVAILABLE and there is NO NEED TO DRAG OLD TEXT INTO SEVERAL
GENERATIONS OF REPLIES.