>  What you do in those cases is to complain that they should only quote
> relevant parts of the original post, not everything.

That doesn't work though, because often new people get added to the cc- or 
to-list if the subject shifts towards something they should know about.  In 
that case the new people need to be able to recall the previous 
communication that led up the current reply.  Or if someone just deleted the 
old emails because it didn't really involve them, but then they needed to 
reply to some comment.  It's just useful to keep all the quoted text.

And besides, if the only reason to delete parts of the quoted text is so 
that people don't have to scroll so far to the bottom to read the reply, 
then why not just write the reply at the top?

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