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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: volume of stuff
Message-ID: <9926@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Mar 89 22:12:43 GMT
References: <890326041532.429790@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <890326041532.429790@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>... there is no point whatsoever to repeating the text of most messages ...

True, but usually it helps to repeat just enough so that people know
what your reponse is referring to.

>(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; ...

No!  Such simplistic rules get in the way more than they help.  I'm
fairly careful to include whatever context seems appropriate, and I
find that it varies radically from 0 quoted lines to a large quoted
block with only a line or two of response.  It can't be automated.