Hi Ron,
Am Sat, 17 Jun 2017 13:35:59 -0400 schrieb ronwirring@Safe-mail.net:
[..] I prefere if others leave the full text in their emails. I prefere to not delete text in my own replies. I cannot make that decision about my replies?
I could image, that Luke would like the participants of this mailinglist to use a style similar to the one defined in RFC1985 ("Netiquette", see section 2.1.1):
Be brief without being overly terse. When replying to a message, include enough original material to be understood but no more. It is extremely bad form to simply reply to a message by including all the previous message: edit out all the irrelevant material.
Since Luke maintains this mailinglist, I find it to be acceptable, that he can define the communication policy of this list, if he prefers so. Specifically in this case he is following a widely used style - even though we are all aware of the fact, that there are different communities or contexts out there using very different styles with regard to quoting.
Cheers, Lars