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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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