At 09:37 AM 4/13/03 -0700, John Knouse wrote:
I know this is probably asking a lot, but couldn't someone clean up messages to this list and delete repetitive html encoding, just make everything plain text, get rid of a lot of repeated quoting, etc?
Probably not: the digest mode on LISTSERV is fully automated, by design. You're asking for someone to, at least daily, do a lot of tedious editing on something that's tangential to our actual goal of creating an encyclopedia.
As a side note, 17-line signatures are often considered excessive.