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Todd: Would it make sense (and not be too hard) to prevent people from including trailing (and thus uncommented) quotations? I would implement it by checking if the last non-empty line starts with a quotation marker (>). Play well, Jacob ---...--- (...) (25 years ago, 6-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I -think- I know what you mean, but I'm not 100% positive. Can you give the URL of some example message which in your mind should be prevented? --Todd (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd Lehman: [...] (...) (URL) well, Jacob ---...--- -- E-mail: sparre@cats.nbi.dk -- -- Web...: <URL:(URL) -- ---...--- (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Jacob: (...) mention that there were a few miscreant newsreaders or mailers out there which wouldn't let people post the right way? While I agree that preventing stuff like that would be nice (if possible), I think it would only take people about 5 (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Todd: [ Example: (URL) ] (...) IIRC, the problem was that the newsreaders/mailers in question induces people to write badly formed posts. (...) I thought about how simple it is to circumvent the test, but it is always a good start, if you can get (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think this is the wrong way. Trying to enforce policy like this with automation is going to fail in someway. The obvious is that someone quotes some *other thread* in his/her message, and then get's it chopped because the script thinks it's (...) (25 years ago, 9-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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In the following "bad" and "misbehave" is only meant with respect to the suggested policy. Christian Holtje: [...] (...) I may not have been clear enough. The server should not _edit_ the "bad" posts. They should reject them with a message (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Hmmm....I'm not sure what majik would have to done to sendmail to make it reject...oh...maybe you mean the listserv program! That's easily doable. That's not a bad idea....can we still add the anti-"nospam" too? "The reason your mail was (...) (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) And a blisteringly-hot baked potato is even harder to unfoil. Cheers, - jsproat (25 years ago, 10-Sep-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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