Re: Weekly posting summary for [e-mail]

[David Morris <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 7 Jun 2013, Noel Chiappa wrote:

>     > From: David Morris <[e-mail]>
> 
>     > 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.

For now, I'm just trying to confirm my impression of the data. Folks who
don't make a case/case choice as to inline/top and removing chaff and
unneeded context probably aren't going to care where they stand on the
total byte count issue.