On 24/10/2023 23:29, NeilBrown wrote: > On Wed, 25 Oct 2023, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: >> On 23/10/2023 20:49, 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. >>> >>> It's happening significantly more lately. Possibly because the gmail >>> client helpfully hides quoted text. >> >> I would also point to reviewers and maintainers who give a Rb/Ack tag: >> 1. somewhere at the top, without any footer like Best regards, and then >> quote entire patch, so I don't know shall I look for more comments after >> Rb/Ack? >> >> 2. quote entire email and then add Rb/Ack, so I need to figure out >> whether there was something between the hundreds of lines of text or not. > > Here we all are, brilliantly talented computer programmers who spend > our days making amazing fast digital devices do amazingly clever and > subtle things, inventing time-saving tools and processing vast amounts > of data without blinking, but for some reason we think the task of > skipping over a few thousand lines that all start with '> " is too hard > for us and that we should, in stead, complain to some other human to > convince them to make our life easier for us. > > Does anyone else see the irony? Neither my email client is able to skip the quoted text, nor lore.kernel.org or Patchwork. Therefore in both cases - reading the email with my current toolset or checking some older threads on lore/Patchwork - I would have to do it manually. Quite a waste of time. Best regards, Krzysztof
