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From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: volume of stuff
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Date: 26 Mar 89 04:15:00 GMT
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Another reminder on how to keep the volume down (someone has to do this
once every six months or so) -- there is no point whatsoever to
repeating the text of most messages you are responding to -- the whole
point of electronic mail is that you can keep up a dialogue while the
issues are moderately fresh in your mind.  If this were a moderated
newsgroup I'd argue that the moderator should throw away any messages
that have less than, say, 90% new content.  (Maybe Brint could stick in
a simple program that counted the number of lines prefixed with one or
more < signs and chuck out all traffic with too many; anyone caught
trying to defeat the algorithm by using some other kind of prefix would
be put on a blacklist and ALL trafffic from him or her would be
rejected.)  (-: