A list that I frequent message to and fro has such a feature.  If I
"reply" and add too much Quoted text it rejects my message and sends me a
notification of the rejection.

Ted Sandoval

Dan Frezza wrote:
>
> Dear John,
>
>         Yes, sometimes I do.  Especially, I have found, for "Hotmail" users, the
> inability for them, to just 'select' quoted material, and then reply.
> Invariably, it turns out the whole message, sometimes a page or more, gets
> quoted.  Not sure if this is a "Hotmail" problem or not, but to answer your
> question, honestly, yes.
>
>         I've even privately written to some people about this, but it doesn't seem
> to help.
>
> Dan Frezza, SFO
>
> > A non-scientific, question to list owners subscribed to LSTOWN-L:
> >
> > Have you ever wished your list could automatically reject posts with more
> > than a certain ratio of old, quoted material (as determined by lines that
> > started with either > or | characters) to new, original material?
> >
> > In other words, do you wish you could stop people from posting messages that
> > consist completely of the text of a previously posted message, plus a very
> > few original lines, sometimes consisting of something like "Me too"?
> >
> > -- John
>
> Dan Frezza <[log in to unmask]>
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