>> The messages having large amounts of rubbish at the bottom but without the
>> quotes are cluttering the archives much more. I can't really think of a way
>> to remove them automagically without significant risk of deleting too much.
>
> Which do you mean?
I think the following link provides some excellent examples:
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm/method=messages&threadid=30574&forumid=4&count=10
>> Allthough I suppose you could get prett far when you compare the messages
>> to the message they reference in the headers. Just have to figure out a
>> decent algorithm to compare strings.
>
> I could do that but it would only remove the 'whole posts', not the partial
> ones.
There are very few people that quote partial posts under their own message.
> That and it would be very 'expensive' in processing.
Not really. 99% of these messages start with some sort of "---Original Message---" marker. After that, just remove everything from the whitespace class and do a string comparison.
Jochem
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