[. . .] >It's the #1 complaint of my listowning friends, and of my subscribers >as well, who get huge messages with "me too" at the bottom. > >I wasn't able to read Eric's full message because it wrapped so >horridly on my low-tech text only screen... but Eric, I know a *bunch* >of listowners who would kill for such a feature. [. . .] I don't think that the feature would be the cureall that many people seem to imply that it would be. I say this because of stuff I've seen on Usenet, where newsreaders were created that limited the amount of quoted material in any given message. The problem is that persistant overquoters, of which there are many, simply discover ways to defeat the limitation. For instance, I've seen people do stuff like the following to artificially increase the proportion of quoted text: I n s e r t i n g e x t r a l i n e s f o r q u o t e d t e x t Also they'll manually or otherwise change the quotation character from > to | or some such, etc. Some email programs allow you to choose the quotation character which would easily allow people to defeat this feature, and if the feature was implemented