Are you referring only to banners repeated in replies.  How would you
set your script for that purpose.

If not, wouldn't your option in effect prevent anyone with
advertising-supported mail services. (e.g. Juno) from posting to the
the list?  Is that what you want?

At 12:05 PM -0700 06/18/01, rex Sheasby wrote:
>This is doable.... as an option to
>bounce the message back to the sender with a message explaining why
>the post was rejected: "Your post to XXX-L was rejected due to
>excessive quoting, in particular, quoting the bottom banner. Please
>remove the bottom banner and all other irrelevant material and submit
>the post again."
>
>The great majority of those who overquote include the bottom banner, and
>so this option would immediately reduce thoughtless overquoting with
>no effort on the list owners part.
>
>-rex

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