On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:54 +0930, Tim wrote: > Tim: > >> If it's technical possible for *this* list server to automatically > >> reject quoted digest replies, I'd like to see it done. > > Patrick O'Callaghan: > > +1, but it could be tricky to pull off reliably. > > There are news servers which do it fairly well (reject for quoting, > HTML, and other reasons). e.g. If a post is substantially more quote > than new content, then it rejects the post and you get an explanatory > message. The original poster than gets a chance to correct the problem > without bugging anyone else, or embarrassing themselves in public. Rejecting on a quoted/new threshold would certainly discourage excessive quoting, but deciding on the magic number would not be easy. As with all rule-based solutions, there are bound to be exceptions and the only way to handle them would be with a moderator, which I suspect nobody is going to want, or with something complicated like Slashdot karma, probably overkill for a list of this type. > You could detect by counting the quote prefixes, or looking for a few > specially inserted bits of text in the digest, that wouldn't be there if > the replier had snipped the quoted text. Canaries so to speak. It's a thought. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
