On Wed, 2023-10-25 at 08:29 +1100, 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? So if I'm a brilliantly talented driver, it's OK for other people to drive on the wrong side of the road because I should be able to avoid them? The point being there are some situations where observing global etiquette is way more helpful than an individual solution, however talented the individual. James
