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Ratio of quoted to original text
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Date:
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Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:44:30 GMT
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Dear Admins...
Please put in a filter to the NNTP server that rejects articles where
the amount of quoted text grossly exceeds the amount of new text. Too
many messages are showing up where the entire original message is
quoted and only a few lines are added. This can lead to some threads
with several enormous messages. For a prime example look at some of
the messages in the "Community Policing is a Good Thing(TM) (Was: Re:
Do you think there is a market)" thread on admin.general...
--Bill.
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William R Ward bill@wards.net http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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Message has 1 Reply:
 | | Re: Ratio of quoted to original text
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| Hello Bill, thanks for bringign this up: (...) I, too, see those, and find them annoying. Until now, I thought this is the way the world is, and it is just me who finds those messages hard to read. However, is filtering the right solution? Shouldn't (...) (23 years ago, 24-Jan-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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