One thing that has been done on a couple of lists that I've found
extremely useful in cutting down on the "me-to" problem is to make the
list ONLY recognize mail that is addressed to it on the "To:" line.
If poeple just do a "reply" then the message will be returned to them
stating that it was not forwarded to the list for that reason, IF they
still want to send it to the list, resend it with the address on the To:
line. I know this took one list down from over 350 messages/day to about 50
with little to no real loss of content, just lots of dropped chatter.
People were asked to send a "summary" of replies they got, that they
found to be useful to the group. This worked rather well.
Granted this may not work well in discussion mailing lists, but it may
work for you.
--Gene
Jason L Tibbitts III made the following keystrokes:
>>>>>> "KB" == Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> writes:
>
>KB> And of course, you'll have clueless gits -- like Ed -- whose email
>KB> software stupidly takes a nice short, normal reply and turns it into
>KB> some MIME-encoded monstrosity with HTML spew
>
>Well, I'm in he middle of implementing the attachment_rules stuff for 2.0
>(now that MIME-tools has the functionality I need) so the HTML spew can be
>vanquished once and for all.
>
>As for minimum length, well, there are several factors that make it
>difficult. Foremost among these is the "what is quoted text" problem. I
>could easily count the (non-blank) lines in a message and include it as an
>access_rules variable, but I suspect it wouldn't do much good. I could try
>to recognize quoted text and feed the unquoted lines and percentage quoted
>in as variables. I wanted to try to compute the percentage of quoted text
>anyway, so all I need is a good method. Anyone have a comprehensive regexp
>for "quoted text" to share?
>
>Anyway, to use these you could do something like this:
>
>access_rules << END
>post
>consult [or deny, your choice]
>$quoted_percentage > 50 ||
>$total_lines > 200 ||
>$unquoted_lines < 2 ||
>[check other variables too
>END
>
>once I finish implementing numeric comparisons. I could also just add some
>config variables like "max_quoted_percentage" for those who don't want to
>deal with the access control stuff.
>
> - J<
>
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