Re: [NTLK] Quoting good or bad?

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_home.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 13:18:04 EDT


on or about 8/8/01 12:58 PM, the following may or may not have been typed by
Jeremy Bond Shepherd at jbond_at_eskimo.com:

> IF the entire message is more than 20 lines
> AND IF > 90% of those lines are quoted
> THEN block.

Counting the "quoting text" (see first line or two above)?? Do the "ads"
that get appended also count as part of that 20 lines?? OK, I'm being
mildly facetious, but there *are* a number of particulars that people may
(will?) argue over. Personally, I'm all for setting up some algorithm like
above, but we need to be prepared to have a possibly long discussion where
some folks may nit-pick to the N-th degree.

Oh, and while we're at it... Is there any way to truncate subject lines so
we don't get those bizarre subjects with seemingly the entire internet
header somehow embedded in the subject???

- Eric.

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