Spam filter notice to group members

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Just to let everyone know, has a " spam filter " that will block

your messages if they contain huge blocks of text that are just quotes of

quotes of quotes of quotes of previous emails in a conversation on a certain

subject.

If you respond to group messages via email rather than by posting on the

website itself, your messages will go through faster if you delete all prior

messages at the bottom of your email. (Most people have their email program

set to automatically include a quote of the email you're replying to.) It's

fine to leave the one message that you're replying in reference to, just for

clarification -- one quoted email won't cause the spam filter to lock down

your reply. But if there's an ongoing conversation about a particular

subject (or if you receive the Daily Digest email, where there are up to 25

email messages in one single email), please delete all extra messages

besides the one message you're replying to.

Here's an example:

Member A posts this:

AAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA

AAAAAA AA AAAA AAA

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Then Member B replies with this, and also quotes the previous message from

Member A:

BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB BBB BB BBB BB B B

BBBBBB BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB

>Member A wrote:

>

>AAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA

>AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA

>AA AAAA AAA

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Then Member C replies with this, and also quotes the previous message from

Members B and A:

CCC C CCCCC CCC C CCC CC CCC C CCCCC CCC C CCC CC CCC C CCCCC CCC C CCC

CC CCC C CCCCC CCC C CCC CC

>Member B wrote:

>

>BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB BBB BB BBB BB B

>B BBBBBB BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB

>BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB

>>Member A wrote:

>>

>>AAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA

>>AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA

>>AA AAAA AAA

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By the time the fourth person -- Member D -- joins in the conversation, you

end up with the quoted messages from C, B, and A:

DD DDDD D DDD DDDDD DD DDDD D DDD DDDDD DD DDDD D DDD DDDDD DD DDDD D DDD

DDDDD DD DDDD D DDD DDDDD

>Member C wrote:

>

>CCC C CCCCC CCC C CCC CC CCC C CCCCC

>CCC C CCC CC CCC C CCCCC CCC C CCC

>CC CCC C CCCCC CCC C CCC CC

>>Member B wrote:

>>

>>BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB BBB BB BBB BB B

>>B BBBBBB BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB

>>BBB BB BBB BB B B BBBBBB

>>>Member A wrote:

>>>

>>>AAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA

>>>AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA AA AAAA AAAAAA

>>>AA AAAA AAA

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You can see how drawn out this example became using just four messages with

each having a one-sentence response. When you realize that we can have

conversations that end up with 20 different back-and-forth posts and

responses, with several paragraphs per response, you can see why it becomes

a problem if every time you have quotes of a quote of a quote from every

single previous message in the entire conversation (or if you've included

every single message in a Daily Digest email).

It's often helpful to include what message you're replying to, just to help

people understand what your comments are in reference to. But if you don't

want your messages to get stuck in the Spam Filter, please delete the

unnecessary old emails that are quoted when you hit " reply " .