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["James Deck" <shutterace@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok time for my 2 cents. I agree with Paul's institution of limits. Why? I 
too belong to many other lists and I for one am sick of spending 20 minutes 
reading 25 messages that only contain a few lines of new text. As far as 
space goes lets look at it as a percentage. If you reply to a message that 
is 20 lines with a 2 line response the server now hold 22 lines correct? Now 
add the quoted text to your reply and it becomes 42 lines. This means 92% of 
the text is duplicated. Now assume someone replies to that message, etc. 
Sure its only a few hundred Kilobytes but multiply that by millions of 
users. It's not just about storage either. The more data out there running 
around on the internet the slower it gets. Just like a traffic jam on the 
freeway (or is it Parkway). All it takes is a sweep of the mouse and a press 
of "delete" to clear out the unwanted text. Not that big of a deal if you 
ask me.

-Jim

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