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[Hal Duston]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2007 at 03:37:41PM -0500, Monty J. Harder wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Jeremy Fowler <jeremy.f76 at 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,
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Hal