How about bouncing it back to the offending user with a pointer to an
"etiquette page"? That will save the "where did my message go" posts...
MS's auto-suffiexes tend to have rather consistent text strings. Some
judicious GREPping might be useful. Bounce them back to the user with a
"how to trim your emails" page or link to MS's KB articles on how to do same.
Maybe list co-moderators might help with the increased workload?
At 23:40 1/19/2001, Mark J Bradakis was inspired to say:
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>Now, I could just leave it as the trailer says, and have messages which do
>not have the trailer edited out tossed in the bit bucket. But there are
>likely folks who just don't realize what they are doing, and need a little
>education.
>And in truth, given that the vast majority of the messages which
>include *way* too much extra stuff are sent via various pieces of junk claimed
>to be useful programs by those marketing thugs at Microsoft, there's a chance
>that the users are not so much to blame for their errors.
>Once I do that, my workload will
>go WAY up. Maybe I should just quit complaining, shut off the server and go
>work on my cars before race season starts.
Cheers!
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