Someone asked a few days ago that we try to edit our responses.
I repeat the request since it had no obvious effect.
That's pretty much the way it has been for well over a decade. A while back
some quick checks on a few of the noisier autox.team.net lists, and found
that some of them were runningin the 75 to 85 percent range of included text.
My analogy was that having that much recycled content was a lot like buying
a 12 ounce beverage, and getting 2 ounces of fresh product and 10 ounces of,
uh, well, not fresh product.
What I did was modify some of the majordomo configuration to add a 'Death
Trailer' to each non-digest message. The lines below with the leading ///
do not yet have the 'Edit your replies' that some of the other lists have.
Maybe soon, we shall see.
A lot of it is plain ignorance, generated by people who use that P.O.S
virus magnet, Outlook Express, which by default includes the *entire* message
in a reply. It also adds to the subscribers address book, by default, the
email address of anyone who sends a message to a list to which the person is
subscribed. This, uh, feature, insures rapid propagation of a virus with
virtually no effort involved on the part of the person who uses this crap.
Before I get too carried away here, I'll just request that people use some
intelligence, common sense and respect for their fellow subscribers and put
a bit of effort into posting concise, easily readable messages. For the
moment, no "Tag Line of Death" on this list but it could happen.
mjb.
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