Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Fri, 07 June 2013 16:09 UTC

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    > From: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>

    > I've wondered for some time whether the reported bytes is the whole
    > message I send included context quotes, or if there is an attempt by
    > the summary logic to factor out quoted content.

I think it's a _feature_ to count the included content, so that people who
(often recursively) top-post on long prior messages, instead of editing down
to just the bit(s) they are replying to, have some negative feedback for that
(irritating) habit.

	Noel