On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 08:48:12PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Víctor Paesa wrote: > > > > On Dec 3, 2007 3:33 PM, Diego Biurrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote: > > > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:33:49AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > the first hit in Google to find out. I would not bother trying to > > > > > help > > > > > him like you guys are doing, but ignore him instead. Sad but true. > > > > > > > > everyone first helps and is shocked by the attitude of people like you > > > > have nowadays :) > > > > then after a few years on a mailinglist of a somewhat bigger and popular > > > > project everyone ends with the same attitude of "just ignore these > > > > mails" > > > > or even more evil things > > > > > > > > iam wondering if theres anyone who isnt following that trend, it doesnt > > > > seem so if even you have now finally succumbed to the dark side ... > > > > > > It is sad to be disillusioned, but it may well be a fact of life. > > > Nowadays I mostly dismiss mails with Outlook (Express) in the X-Mailer > > > field or from known-broken webmail addresses right away. The signal to > > > noise ratio is just too low in my experience. > > > > Hey, maybe it is because I still remember my first mails here (using a > > @hotmail.com address), but I still have some hope in Mr. "jgh lrhgI": he > > has switched to the right mail list, and he is fighting to use the > > libavfilter API (and we do not have too many developers here). > > > > > I also have the impression that mailing list etiquette is in decline > > > among newcomers. > > > > Fully agree, also real life etiquette is declining, maybe we are > > getting too old ;o) > > yeah, that reminds me that i read somewhere that the ancient greek 2000years > ago where also complaining about the worseing of peoples especially youth > manners
Umm, no, I don't think it's that simple. The way email is used as a medium has changed. Nowadays the only kind of mail client many people have ever used is webmail. And ever since Outlook Express appeared on the scene with top-posting as default quoting styles have gone down the drain. Most non-nerds I know have no idea what different quoting styles exist and have never used or even seen proper interleaved quoting. > i guess we are forgeting that we once didnt know what top posting is, how > to quote properly, which ML to use for something, how to code, ... Could be. > i think someone should write a little script which detects bad mails and > sends replies with clear explanations for these as well as helping people > unsubscribe and all that > for safety the script might also ask a human first before sending a mail > to prevent even more nonsense floating around > (it would reduce the work to a single keypress instead of writing an actual > mail ...) > > detecting many bad things is easy (though its also easy to mess up) > > too long lines detection: > if more them 50% of the non quoted non empty lines are >80 chars > > top posting detection: > if more text is before the > "On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Víctor Paesa wrote:" > line than non quoted non / signature text after it > > too large signature detection: > well if sig is larger then 5 lines, this would also detect these > confidential delete the mail you are not blah footers > > thread hijacking: > if no Re: in subject but inreplyto header > > ... > > Note: such a script can be run as a cronjob on any ones system no need > to change anything on the server > Note2: and for maximum effect, choose a female name as sender and make the > script send mails which appear to be written by a human instead of a script Does not sound like a bad idea.. Diego _______________________________________________ FFmpeg-soc mailing list [email protected] http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-soc
