[PRCo] Re: administrivia part 2

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Fred W. Schneider III wrote:

> 
> What is a trailing quote?  The second one back?  If so, fine. 
> Absolutely.  There may be times when we want to forward a note from
> someone outside the list...will it accept that or does it need to first
> be sent to Shadow?

I didn't want to actually have a discussion about this on the list because
it's just pointless traffic, but in the interest of information:

If it's not "quoted" (e.g. if you "forward" it as opposed to "replying" to
it and sending it to us, with most mail clients it doesn't add the > crap)
you can send it to the list and no action will be taken. The point has
also been raised that stripping trailing quotes may kill all of the
context. So, what the heck should I do? One thing I can't do is sit down
and bang out an AI in a few hours to figure out in software what can be
stripped and what can't, and I'd really like to trim out the fat but
enable the exchange of useful content.

> I'm still in favor of anything that gets rid of the garbage.  There are
> 48 e-mails here for me to sift through in a few minutes before leaving
> for my cousins in Pittsburgh.  I don't need that bother.  If you can
> reduce the burden, FEEL FREEEEEEEE.

I'm trying.

> Have you got any software that imbeds some codes in the original message
> that forces people to inspect and possibly change the subject line as
> needed? 

Ha! (No)

-D