Hi Neil,
On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 11:46 PM NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2023, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2023 07:11:36 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Yesterday someone on my lists just sent an email looking for kernel
> > > tasks.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Doesn't your email reader automatically hide most of a large quote?
> Mine does :-)
That's part of the problem: many people don't see anymore if the
previous email author removed irrelevant parts or not. Until they
want to reply...
> > It's happening significantly more lately. Possibly because the gmail
> > client helpfully hides quoted text.
When replying, the Gmail web interface (or Chrome?) is also very
slow when selecting very long irrelevant parts for deletion. And it's
hard to predict when "Show original" and "b4 mbox && alpine -f"
would be faster...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
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In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds
