[WikiEN-l] Quoting back list footers

Sun Dec 11 22:54:21 UTC 2005

On 12/11/05, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
> On 11 Dec 2005 at 15:57, Anthony DiPierro <wikilegal at inbox.org> wrote:
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> Could *somebody* program the mailing list software used by this list
> to reject messages that quote back the list footers, as done *four*
> times in a row above?  That might put a stop to the silly, lazy habit
> of top-posting with fullquote which some participants are doing.
>
> http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/top-posting.html
> http://mailformat.dan.info/quoting/bottom-posting.html
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I never have understood what to do when someone else top-posts.  Does
one of those urls explain how to handle that situation?