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]> > PGP -- An envelope for your email > PGP Public Key on Server