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Re: Limiting quotations?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 9 Sep 1999 22:12:08 GMT
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On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 09:22:18PM +0000, Jacob Sparre Andersen wrote:
> > 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...
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> 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.
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 just a "me-too" style post.
I think the repeat offenders should be talked to. We are a community,
with all the plusses and minuses that entails. I'd rather take the bad
than miss the good.
On the flip-side, if we are going to enforce via scripts things that irk
people, then I say if an email address doesn't resolve, then they
shouldn't be allowed to post (eg "foo@bar.pleasedontspam.com").
But that's just the quirks of personality that make me who I am.
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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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| 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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