I find top-quoting extremely annoying on most mailing lists. A
$ub$criber typically quotes back an entire article, adds a few
lines of their own to the top, and sends the whole thing back to
the list. This makes threads difficult to follow when $ub$cribed
in individual post mode. The dige$ts can become nearly
indecipherable. Fortunately, my lists all use a footers that
include instructions for un$ub$cribing, the user's $ub$cribed
email address and other info. I've set up a filter that looks
for some of the strings in the footers which are very unlikely to
be mentioned in the body of a reply. If a $ub$criber blindly
quotes back the whole article, including the footers, their post
is rejected and they receive a polite email notifying them of the
rejection and describing how one should use quotes on a mailing
list. Wish I had thought of this years ago.
- murr -
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