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Re: Mangling of mails (was: fraclib.e)

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jan 21, 2003
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Juergen Luethje writes:
> What the hell is sometimes happening to mails on this list?!

ListFilter sets a limit of 100 consecutive lines of 
quoted material. After that it inserts "<snip>".
It has been that way for more than a year.
I don't recall anyone complaining, or even noticing.

I got tired of reading a 500-line message,
then immediately reading a reply message consisting of a quick
remark, and then the same 500-line message quoted.
It requires too much scrolling to find out if there is
any more original material coming.

The other "mangling" that ListFilter does, is to
delete those Yahoo, Hotmail and other ads
that are attached at the end of some people's
messages. If ListFilter sees that your messages consistently 
have these ads, it will start scanning your messages,
looking for long lines of dashes, equals signs, or underscores 
(that introduce ads). So be careful not to use these 
lines in your message, or they might be misinterpreted 
as the start of an ad. The 90% who don't have ads 
needn't worry about this.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com