Re: [NTLK] Quoting good or bad?

From: James Elliott (rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 20:14:48 EDT


I voted yes as well. Such a thing would prevent people like me from
making the same stupid mistake again and copying half of the digest.

-James

>Jeremy Bond Shepherd <jbond_at_eskimo.com> wrote:
>
>
>I voted yes. I think the goal should be to to prevent people
>from replying to a message within a digest, typing a response,
>and then forgetting to trim out the rest of the digest.
>
>I don't generally approve of strict new text/quoted text rules,
>such as "must have more original than quoted text".
>
>Something like this seems ideal:
>
>IF the entire message is more than 20 lines
>AND IF > 90% of those lines are quoted
>THEN block.
>
>Thanks,
>
>-Jeremy

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