Re: long quotes

[turnbull@example.com (Stephen J. Turnbull)]

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   Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 23:51:56 +1300
   From: schweiz@example.com (Jim Schweizer)
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   Hi all,

   Sorry, my mailer doesn't record who said what but,

   >> Best solution would be to have Majordomo reject such posts.  You run a 
   >> Majordomo list, don't you, Alberto?  Check and see if you could advise
   >> Craig on how to work that up.
   >
   >Personally, I am against rejecting any post unless it is a big problem.
   >However, as always, majority rules.  If the majority wants to put
   >special functions on the list, I'll look into it if time permits.

   I like getting Ted's posts,

I hate it when I do that.

I wasn't serious about censoring posts; what I meant was that it would
be "most efficient" for Majordomo to do the censoring.

I like getting Ted's posts too.  I dislike the fact that he appends
entire messages, but I don't blame him for that.  Computers are
supposed to make life easy ("Transparent Ted" being the foremost
advocate in TLUG :-).  Why should he have to go to the trouble of
weeding out all the irrelevant content?  And his mailer makes it easy
for him to ignore it.  His mailer also allows lines that are far too
long for e-messages (space should be allowed for multiple quoting, and 
lines greater than about 65 characters in length are not ergonomic,
that's why most printed matter is multicolumn).

The mailer is at fault.  There should be a software solution.  The
Draconian one is for Majordomo to reject those posts; there ought to
be a better one (but I'm not sure what it is).

And the problem for digest recipients is much more severe.

   and Eudora 1.4.3 seems to be having no problems
   reading the headers (or am I missing something here;-) I vote against
   special functions.

What you're missing is apparently the "advanced mail system"
implemented at Cyber ;-)

ciao

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                            Stephen J. Turnbull
Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences                    Yaseppochi-Gumi
University of Tsukuba                      http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/
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