Re: [NTLK] Quoting Limits

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Thu Oct 11 2001 - 21:12:49 EDT


somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 10/11/01 8:28 PM, the entity
known as John Johnson transmitted the following from
kamikazebear_at_excite.com:

>
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2001 09:26:59 +0200, newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
>
>>
>> on 17-08-2001 6:39, Victor Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net wrote:
>>
>>> 1) The rules are only enabled if a message is over 100 lines long
>>> 2) If the largest quoted *BLOCK* makes up at least 95% of the entire
>>> message, then the message will be rejected.
>>
>> Thanks Victor, will at least filter the worst cases out, I personally
> would
>> say that 50 lines would do as well though.
>
> OK! Going by the percentage seems sound enough and some of the
> long quoted messages need to be trimmed but more in the interest
> of clarity than length per se!
> The matter is that, when you have writers 1 & 2 in full speight
> writer 3 removes whatever from either but only within the context
> of the one or *more* sub threads that may have arisen and it's
> always good to keep the sense of flow and consistancy: it's cool
> when you have the feel of a conversation developing.
> What I */hate/* is when a mailer gets back to me mulling over a
> "question" when the relevant information was spelled out in some
> previous mail.
> As for those that download to the newt its more a matter of how many mails
> you expect to grab at a single session: reading the headings before getting
> each message and being able to check the file size at the same time would be
> perfect! C U later! </;-) John J.
>

Ummmm.... Has somebody been playing Rip Van Winkle for the last two
months??? :-)

- Eric.

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