How 'bout a message-to-signature length ratio where signatures longer
than the message is filtered? ;-)

At 21:45 02/12/1999 Friday -0500, you wrote:
|> A quote/message ratio filter would also be useful. a simple ratio
|> of the lines that start with ">" to other lines would catch the
|> large majority of excess quotes.
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|Except in cases like this one, where the question is brief and the
|answer just as brief.
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