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Re: Limiting quotations?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 9 Sep 1999 21:22:18 GMT
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Todd:
[ Example: 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?
IIRC, the problem was that the newsreaders/mailers in
question induces people to write badly formed posts.
> 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...
I thought about how simple it is to circumvent the test, but
it is always a good start, if you can get people to
recognise that somebody dislikes their behaviour. It might
even make sense to tell people how to circumvent the filter,
_if_ the really want to do what they tried to do.
Play well,
Jacob
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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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| 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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