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From: purdy at tecman.com (Curt Purdy)
Subject: Adminstrivia: Digest Limits/Netiquette

A very interesting concept Nick. I am preparing to launch a list and am
looking for ways to automate moderation.  Does anyone have a perl/shell
script for doing this kind of thing?

Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA
Information Security Engineer
DP Solutions

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-----Original Message-----
From: full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com
[mailto:full-disclosure-admin@...ts.netsys.com]On Behalf Of Nick
FitzGerald
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 6:24 PM
To: full-disclosure@...ts.netsys.com
Subject: Re: [Full-Disclosure] Adminstrivia: Digest Limits/Netiquette

Len Rose wrote:

> We have increased the digest size again to 100K
> which is still somewhat small but it's growing
> thanks to those who still insist on quoting
> so much text (including the mailing list trailers,
> and complete signatures).

Yeah, and they're nearly all braindead top-posters to boot...

> Please don't send 1 line replies to the list, send
> them to the intended recipient only.

Right on...    8-)

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".

Regards,

Nick FitzGerald
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