Kate writes: "Eight posts a day maximum 150-175 lines or 1200 words each will be accepted. Posts will be truncated accordingly."
She adds: "the limit is nearly ten thousand words" Kate -- I assume you're using an average of 7 words to a line, and that seems reasonable. For example the thirty words above take 5 lines (I assume Databack does not count a space between lines.) That's only 6 words a line, but the occurrence of two two-word lines in five lines is unusual. If one did have the alleged maximum 175 lines in a posting, at 7 words per line that would be a maximum number of words of 1,250 -- close enough to 1,200. And eight postings of the maximum would be 10,000 words. And I agree that, while reprinting the single previous posting one is responding to (or at least some pertinent excerpts) is usually a good idea, reprinting much more than that is usually unnecessary and cluttering. However, I feel fairly sure there have been single postings of far more than 1,200 words in recent months. The grounds for my feeling semi-sure are a semi-reliable recollection that one day, upon seeing a very long posting by a lister, I copied it, pasted it in a blank Word doc, and clicked 'Word Count'. It was a multiple of 1,200. So I then posted a message that was also a multiple of 1,200 -- and all of it went through. I'm not complaining about this. Except for the unthinking reprinting of almost an entire thread, I don't find much abuse of the alleged length-restriction. (If Kirby were still with us, given his admitted assignment to himself to test the limits of tolerance of any forum he's on, I imagine he'd try posting his PhD thesis.)
