On Wed, Jan 14, 1998 at 10:17:29AM -0800,
Roger B.A. Klorese <rogerk@QueerNet.ORG> is thought to have said:
rogerk> On Wed, 14 Jan 1998, Kynn Bartlett wrote:
rogerk> > Roger wrote:
rogerk> > > It's been proposed by my list managers that we could eliminate me-too!
rogerk> > > posts by implementing a minimum post length to go along with the maximum.
rogerk> >
rogerk> > Wouldn't this just (a) penalize short posts, and (b) encourage
rogerk> > people to include lots of text in their "me too" messages?
rogerk>
rogerk> a) For many of my lists, penalizing short posts is a good idea.
rogerk> b) Not if we had decent citation detection logic too.
Why not do something with taboo_body instead and let the list manager deal
with instructing the senders of "me too!" posts about list rules and such?
Or if you want to do it site-wide, add it to the administrivia checks or
global_taboo_body stuff in majordomo.cf.
Seems to me to be a better solution than adding another config file option
that would have a very limited application, not work with people who quote
the whole message to only add "me too!" (or have stupid mailers), and
encourage the behavior that Kynn describes above.
Tabor
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