On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 13:16 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Rejecting on a quoted/new threshold would certainly discourage
excessive quoting, but deciding on the magic number would not be easy.
Well, a 90:1 ought to get digest posts and not be a problem to others.
Something high would be
Tim:
If it's technical possible for *this* list server to automatically
reject quoted digest replies, I'd like to see it done.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
+1, but it could be tricky to pull off reliably.
There are news servers which do it fairly well (reject for quoting,
HTML, and other reasons).
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 02:14 +, g wrote:
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poc,
if 'appropriately edited', *Subject: * should also be changed to a new
message, not just click 'reply'.
clicking 'reply' would carry id of *Re: fedora-list Digest, Vol nn, Issue
nnn*.
would it not?
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 23:54 +0930, Tim wrote:
Tim:
If it's technical possible for *this* list server to automatically
reject quoted digest replies, I'd like to see it done.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
+1, but it could be tricky to pull off reliably.
There are news servers which do it fairly
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Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
snip
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 02:14 +, g wrote:
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poc,
if 'appropriately edited', *Subject: * should also be changed to a new
message, not just click 'reply'.
clicking 'reply'
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 20:03 +, g wrote:
As I said, the digest is not itself a message on the list,
true. but hitting this list it gets an id, totally unrelated to thread
reply is to.
so this doesn't matter.
false. i understand and respect your knowledge. but you are not
accepting
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 10:23 +0530, winiston wrote:
Hi friends,
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You did it again. Please stop copying the whole digest in your posts.
It's completely pointless and counterproductive. Take a few seconds to
remove extraneous material (see the Guidelines at
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 07:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
stop copying the whole digest in your posts
If it's technical possible for *this* list server to automatically
reject quoted digest replies, I'd like to see it done.
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On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 22:57 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 07:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
stop copying the whole digest in your posts
If it's technical possible for *this* list server to automatically
reject quoted digest replies, I'd like to see it done.
+1, but it could
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 22:57 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 07:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
stop copying the whole digest in your posts
If it's technical possible for *this* list server to automatically
reject quoted digest replies, I'd like to see
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Frank Murphy wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 12:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 22:57 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 07:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
stop copying the whole digest in your posts
If it's
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 17:37 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 12:01 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 22:57 +0930, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 07:59 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
stop copying the whole digest in your posts
If it's
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Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
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I have no idea what the OP
was asking - I opened the original mail because it was a slow day,
but when I saw the digest TOC, I just deleted it. Most days, I
probably would have deleted it without even opening it.
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
As I'm on individual mails,
have just added on gmail.com subject fedora-list Digest goed to trash.
This should be the last one I get.
That will also trash messages that have been appropriately edited but
retain the digest Subject line. I agree these are also
On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 07:43 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
As I'm on individual mails,
have just added on gmail.com subject fedora-list Digest goed to trash.
This should be the last one I get.
That will also trash messages that have been appropriately
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
I'm curious...just how often does this problem present itself such that
it generates as much backlash as it does?
If you mean the problem of people quoting digests, there are some repeat
offenders out there who just don't seem to get the idea, and it *is*
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
I'm curious...just how often does this problem present itself such that
it generates as much backlash as it does?
I think the fact that is generates so much backlash is what keeps it
down - You get hammered for it, and do not get any help until you
correct
I think the fact that is generates so much backlash is what keeps it
down - You get hammered for it, and do not get any help until you
correct your behavior.
And there are probably some that get hammered for it, stagger around a
bit, and then move on to other places with a bad taste in their
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