On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:37:41PM -0500, Monty J. Harder wrote:
On 8/31/07, Jeremy Fowler jeremy.f76@gmail.com wrote:
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You can't control what someone sends to the list, but you can control what you read from them by using utilities, like gmail, that automatically clean up someone's message.
Actually, we could control it. We could have a bot refuse any message with more than a certain proportion of quoted quoted quoted quoted quotes. It could send back to the writer an explanation of why it's inconsiderate to do that to the readers, and that we have higher standards than that. But we won't do that, because we don't have a consensus on where to draw the line.
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The line is drawn at 40 kilobytes (KB) in the message body.
Thanks, -- Hal