I ask this with all due respect: why is the size of the email of any concern?<br>
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For new people to the list (like me; I just signed up a few minutes ago
and already have 7 emails!), it is very helpful to have the entire
conversation contained in the response that I'm reading, so I don't
have to scratch my head and waste time wandering over to the archives
to see the previous pieces of the conversation.<br>
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So there's at least two very good reasons to keep it the way it is:
information stays in one place, and the burden on the reader is reduced.<br>
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Could you please enlighten me with your reasons for wanting to reduce the email size?<br>
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I'm serious; I'm not being antagonistic, but that may not show through in text so I'm disclaiming it with this paragraph.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
Ken Beal<br>
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PS Because you (or one of the previous responders) already
trimmed the below email, I do not know if you have already stated your
reasons, and am therefore at risk of being <span style="font-style: italic;">slightly </span>antagonistic by not looking them up in
the archives right now. However, I'm hoping that this instantiates my point, as opposed to just describing it.<br>
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<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael T. Dean</b> <<a href="mailto:mtdean@thirdcontact.com">mtdean@thirdcontact.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 02/25/2006 06:20 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:<br>> On Saturday 25 February 2006 17:47, Steve Hodge wrote:<br>><br>>> On 2/26/06, Asher <<a href="mailto:freedenizen@gmail.com">freedenizen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br>>><br>>>> On 2/25/06, Isaac Richards <<a href="mailto:ijr@case.edu">ijr@case.edu</a>> wrote:<br>>>><br>>>>> If all of the people using gmail don't start trimming your replies<br>
>>>> properly, I'm going to start moderating (and very likely, discarding)<br>>>>> all posts from the domain. This is just ridiculous. It's not<br>>>>> everyone, but it _is_ the majority of gmail users.
<br>>>>><br>>>> Is there a way to filter by "> > > >" or something? I'd hate to lose<br>>>> my ability to post, and I find it annoying too. So maybe there is a<br>>>> way to discard mail that you can tell has excessive quotes in it.
<br>>>><br>>> If you could reliably detect quoted signatures that would probably be<br>>> a good indication that the email has not been trimmed carefully<br>>> enough.<br>>><br>> That's what I was thinking originally - look for, say, more than one of the
<br>> mailman footers in the message and dump it out there. I can't figure out how<br>> to make mailman do that (at most, it'll seem to do filtering on the message<br>> headers). However, I _can_ block the domain very easily.
<br>><br><br>It seems the mailman devs have purposefully left the content filtering<br>system very basic, taking the "right tool for the job" approach<br>(pre-filter content with something else). Have you considered setting
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