On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 15:41:48 -0400 Konstantin Ryabitsev <mricon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 08:55:56AM -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > Well here's a task: write a bot which follows the mailing lists and > > > sends people nastygrams if one of their emails is more than 95%(?) > > > quoted text. > > > > I think that might be better off as a spam filter rule. > > > > Don't make it some after-the-fact "trawl the lists". Just make it a > > bounce with a "you quoted too much". Same as the html avoidance. > > I know people aren't being very serious, but automating this away either > aggressively (reject as spam) or passive-agressively (whine at poster) will > run into rare but valid corner cases. For example, we have no way of > distinguishing between "this person quoted too much from previous message" and > "this person posted a large but relevant quote from docs or another > conversation," and so we will likely punish/annoy the innocent. Rejecting a legtimate email would be bad. So we choose "whine at poster". If it's a false positive then they'll somehow survive the experience. And, most importantly, the mail will get through. > It's better to treat this as a mentoring opportunity and send an off-list > reply with "please trim your quotes" and maybe a link to > https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette I'm tiring of sending off-list emails. This task could be automated. Which is what I'm suggesting! > If it helps, I can add a mailing list etiquette page on subspace.kernel.org, > so it's easier to find. Great, link to that in the whiney emails.
