Paper Tiger, Avman & Crepello,
Personally I don't think people including quotes is annoying (it's a useful feature of this forum - you don't have to keep reading all the excerpts in grey!), nor do I find this practice makes a thread unneccessarily long or more difficult to follow. But debating a very simple point at length - instead of concentrating on the matter in hand - is a lot more frustrating! Why don't you just send a PM?