Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 09:10:50 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: message length policy
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

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>On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:20:41 -0500 (EST) "Keith F. Lynch"
><kfl at keithlynch.net> writes:
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>> This is WSFA's list, not my list, so what do all of you think?
>> Should
>> I block all messages of more than a certain size?  If so, what
>> size?
>> Mine was 16k.  The longest message before today was 11k.
>
>Instead of blocking long messages, could you just snip them to a certain
>length?  If you did that, it would encourage top posting (for short
>answers), and it would encourage economy for longer, interleaved,
>answers.  I think a 4K limit would combat archive bloat.

I'd rather that WSFAns learn how to use their Delete key.

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>>
>> Should I automatically snip all bottom-posted quoted text?  In some
>> cases this may make it harder to tell what someone is replying to.
>> But it would cut down the text volume (but not the message volume)
>> of this list by a factor of three.
>
>Can you automatically snip all bottom-posted quoted text?  If so, I say
>yes, you should.  If someone wants to provide context, let them
>selectively bottom post, or post responses interleaved with context.

See above.

mjw
Who has delete key and knows how to use it

>
>Ron Kean
>