At 03:04 AM 11/18/2002 -0500, Wayne Smith wrote: >When people had 300 baud modems and really dumb mail reading software, >every character seemed to count. Now with faster links, what's the gain >in worrying about including some junk >at the end of a post? The length of individual posts has become less and less an issue... unless you receive a digest of the list and have to scrounge around for a few hundred lines on content mixed throughout thousands of lines of data that has been repeated over and over again. There are some good reasons to limit quoting and some situations which really require it. -- DCP -- Douglas Palmer | Voice: 718-260-2291 Fax: 718-260-2338 SystemsManager, USDC-EDNY | rm -rf /bin/laden 225 Cadman Plaza East | Email: [log in to unmask] Brooklyn, New York 11201 | CCNP