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Message-ID: <200306271805.h5RI58jK010592@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu)
Subject: Adminstrivia: Digest Limits/Netiquette
On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:23:47 +1300, Nick FitzGerald <nick@...us-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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