On 8/21/2006 12:56, Russ Hunt wrote:
> While I have a lot of sympathy with being strict about rules, I 
> find that simply putting a size limit on postings does a good 
> deal toward limiting excessive quoting (and those repeated 
> bottom banners).  Most of my subscribers aren't especially 
> sophisticated about lists and quoting, and don't actually 
> _notice_ that they've included all the messages in the strand 
> below their text, because they don't _look_ below their text.  
> It doesn't take long, though, before the message exceeds 150 or 
> 200 lines and they can't post it.
>

Yet another reason why top-posting should be banned.

-- 
Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame
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