Dear listfather,
recently I got two of these messages from listar:
> Your message was automatically REJECTED from the list, for the following
> reason:
> Too many lines quoted (threshold is 70% of total lines in message)
> Sorry, but you have quoted too many lines in your reply. The list
> software automatically rejects any messages where 70% or more of the lines
> are quoted from previous messages. There's never any reason to quote this
> much. If you must refer to some long message or thread, provide a link to
> it in the archive instead of duplicating the same text over and over and
> over...
> So please edit your message and attempt to re-post it. Thank you.
> NewtonTalk.net admins
> victor_at_newtontalk.net
> ---
> Ecartis v1.0.0 - job execution complete.
I have two things to criticise:
first - there is no link to the original message that has been rejected
second - in my opinion the limit is much too stringent:
If I reply with one line to a message containing about 8 lines, my reply
will be already rejected. This cannot be the intention.
I think we all confirm that the number of quoted lines should be limited,
because it is a very lazy behaviour to answer a thread without deleting the
lines not directly related to the answer. This way the thread ends up with a
few hundred lines but you do not really know what the actual part is.
Johannes
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