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Re: Limiting quotations?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:09:00 GMT
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Jacob:
> Todd:
> > Jacob:
> > >
> > > 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 (>).
> >
> > I -think- I know what you mean, but I'm not 100% positive. Can you give
> > URL of some example message which in your mind should be prevented?
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> http://www.lugnet.com/trains/?n=2111
OK, that's what I thought you meant. But didn't someone a few months back
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 seconds to learn how to circumvent
it the wrong way -- say, by putting a dot or an 'x' at the very bottom
rather than actually fixing the quoting problem. Automatic sigs would
probably also circumvent it, assuming that it only checked the last non-
empty line...
--Todd
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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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