Re: [Full-Disclosure] Adminstrivia: Digest Limits/Netiquette

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Date: 06/27/03

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    To: nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2003 14:05:07 -0400

    On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:23:47 +1300, Nick FitzGerald <nick@virus-l.demon.co.uk> said:

    > I'm fully in favour of "quoted-line to new content" ratio moderation.
    > Simply bounce any message with more quoted lines than non-quoted, or
    > whatever more or less harsh ratio you think is reasonable. Messages
    > without "substantial" new content relative to quoted content are
    > generally (like 95-99%) not worth the bandwidth, storage space or
    > deletion time they "consume".

    You do, of course, realize that sometimes a one-line "read THIS url" suffices?

    That's when you start seeing
    slash-dot style
    padding that's there
    just to make more
    new lines than original. Now I've got a 50/50 ratio. Barely.

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