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(...) How does it calculate the sizes of the two halves? Lines? Bytes? Non-whitespace characters? In practice, does it encourage things like large signature files and fluff-filling to get around the rule? How does it identify quoted stuff? Does it (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio
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(...) Lines, I think. I'm not sure exactly of the details -- I'll ask one of the news people here and get back to you. (...) The point really is just to stop those posts which are 90% quoting.... I hate that. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Also sprach Todd Lehman: : How does it identify quoted stuff? Does it correctly handle >, |, +, and : : in all cases? (Not everyone uses >, unfortunately.) Good point. But '>' is not entirely standard. tin is about as venerable a newsreader as you (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio
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(...) Well put. And good documentation for the record. :) It's an extremely difficult problem to solve correctly in a completely mechanized way. My questions to Matt were designed to highlight the difficulties and I hope it didn't seem like I was (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio
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(...) :) yeah well. it was just a thought. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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