I have a quote reject script (one from the Smartlist FAQ) set on all my lists to keep quoting to a minimum.
Lately, more and more of my subscribers -- mostly newbies (both on my list and on the Internet itself) -- are using unconventional quoting styles and their posts are sneaking past the quote reject, often with massive amounts of requoting.
My current quote reject script looks for the standard greater-than carats (>) at the beginning of lines. I now have several people who simply put quotation marks around quoted sections. For example:
"This is stuff someone else said. I'm requoting it and then I'm going to follow it by saying nothing more than than I agree with what they said. I will not add anything of substance in my response, and I will do this repeatedly throughout the rest of my 40k post to this list ... today, tomorrow, and as long as I am a subscriber."
And then they write their response and go into the next quoted paragraph. It's annoying as all hell and I'm getting complaints.
Has anyone here devised a script to reject based on this style of quoting when it's used excessively? I would really rather not have to start siphoning off certain subscribers' posts just to count the lines by hand. That's such a pain. But my requests for these folks to monitor themselves have not worked. I have to do something.
Any help or suggestions are appreciated.
Violet xoxox