Mon, 21 Aug 2006 16:01:00 -0400
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On 8/21/2006 12:56, Russ Hunt wrote:
> While I have a lot of sympathy with being strict about rules, I
> find that simply putting a size limit on postings does a good
> deal toward limiting excessive quoting (and those repeated
> bottom banners). Most of my subscribers aren't especially
> sophisticated about lists and quoting, and don't actually
> _notice_ that they've included all the messages in the strand
> below their text, because they don't _look_ below their text.
> It doesn't take long, though, before the message exceeds 150 or
> 200 lines and they can't post it.
>
Yet another reason why top-posting should be banned.
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Paul Russell, Senior Systems Administrator
OIT Messaging Services Team
University of Notre Dame
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