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--- Dominic Fox <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There must be a technical solution to this (yes, > yes, I know: there's > a perfectly straightforward social solution, which > is for everybody to > change their behaviour...). It's surely not > impossible for a digest to > be filtered so that any quoted text of over three > lines that occurs > earlier in the same digest is snipped. Gmail does > something quite like > this already, folding comments quite intelligently. > > Dominic > The trouble with technical solutions is that they can be almost as bad as the problem. Some of the time is quite essential for the original message to be kept intact so that the reply makes sense and is read as relevant. The people who leave unedited chunks of previous posts intact are usually the ones who top-post rather than bottom-post. see http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html for an explanation of the difference. The top-posters simply don't scroll down and see all the rest of the message to the chagrin of digest-readers Gerald England New Hope International, Haiku Talk poetry, reviews, travel photography and more http://www.geraldengland.co.uk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com