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Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 14 Jan 1999 08:00:02 GMT
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Beaker <beaker@havoc.gtf.org> writes:
> [...]
> The problem with this is that any arbitrary line you draw will exclude
> some legitimate posts. The goal here is obvious; you want to prevent
> posts that quote fifty or sixty lines of text in order to say 'me too'
> ... this is obnoxious, but it would require AI to filter it effectively
> without stepping on legitimate posts. I can think of a number of
> situations where quoting 50 or 60 lines would be appropriate. Trying to
> set a percentage, say, quoted text can amount to no more than 1.5x the
> original text, will run into similar problems.
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> I've always felt that trying to enforce this particular item of
> netiquette causes more problems than it solves. For example, the very
> same people who are likely to quote an entire article to post a one-line
> response are the same people who, when confronted with a message that
> their post has been rejected due to quoted text, will just go back and
> add 70 or 80 blank lines. You gain nothing.
Well put. And good documentation for the record. :)
It's an extremely difficult problem to solve correctly in a completely
mechanized way.
My questions to Matt were designed to highlight the difficulties and I hope
it didn't seem like I was anything but extremely skeptical. :-)
--Todd
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 | | Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio
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| Also sprach Todd Lehman: : How does it identify quoted stuff? Does it correctly handle >, |, +, and : : in all cases? (Not everyone uses >, unfortunately.) Good point. But '>' is not entirely standard. tin is about as venerable a newsreader as you (...) (28 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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