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Subject: Re: Minimum Length?
From: "Roger B.A. Klorese" <rogerk @ QueerNet . ORG>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 10:17:29 -0800 (PST)
To: Kynn Bartlett <kynn @ idyllmtn . com>
Cc: majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <199801141808.KAA10311@ayla.idyllmtn.com>

On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
> Roger wrote:
> > It's been proposed by my list managers that we could eliminate me-too!
> > posts by implementing a minimum post length to go along with the maximum.
> 
> Wouldn't this just (a) penalize short posts, and (b) encourage
> people to include lots of text in their "me too" messages?

a) For many of my lists, penalizing short posts is a good idea.
b) Not if we had decent citation detection logic too.
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ROGER B.A. KLORESE                                          rogerk@QueerNet.ORG
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