X-Message-Number: 13902 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 12:36:10 -0400 (EDT) From: "Kevin Q. Brown" <> Subject: Re: Trimming large posts In message #13882 Philip Rhoades <> said: > I think this has been said before but can people try and trim their > replies instead of posting the WHOLE previous Cryonet? Philip, I just implemented a software solution. For each message sent to CryoNet's posting address (), the software now counts the number of lines that begin with "> " and the number of lines that do not begin with "> ". Except for short messages (about 20 lines), it now refuses to post any message with over twice as many quoted ("> ") lines as nonquoted lines. When the software rejects such a message, it sends an explanation to the person who sent it with a copy of the message so that the sender can see the problem. This should filter out postings that accidentally append a copy of the entire, previous digest to the end. Hopefully, the two-to-one threshold will not filter out replies that require inclusion of significant context from previous messages to make sense. Let me know if this threshold needs to be adjusted. Kevin Q. Brown Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=13902