I was socialized in the early days of the Internet, were TOFU posting was nearly on the same level as a cardinal sin. I didn't think much of it when I started

I was socialized in the early days of the Internet, were TOFU posting was nearly on the same level as a cardinal sin. I didn't think much of it when I started doing correspondence with the corporate world: More than once when distilling emails and do inline quoting I've been accused of distorting the correspondence and should follow "proper" ettiquete. People never questioned TOFU, they just took the default mode of a certain email client as gospel, as a law written in stone, the ultimate authority. I've long given up. Text compresses well and all those redundant quotes are made short work of by even by the most naive Huffman tree coder.