At 08:48 AM 6/18/98 -0400, Erich L. Markert wrote:
>The problem is how can you practically & accurately identify quoted
>messages? You can't. There will always be ways around any method
>that attempts to prevent overquoting. Any derived method will only
>work with those people who follow proper nettiquette and those aren't
>the people who are creating the overquoting problems anyhow.
In addition, I'm always having problems with NNTP and its quoting
limitations. I try to be a good cut n' paster, but I also like to leave
enough of the previous message for some current context- NNTP often doesn't
allow this (until I changed my quote character. All better now).
Netiquette and beating on abusers is the best way to go.
Philo
Philo [log in to unmask]http://www.radix.net/~philo/
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer