[mythtv-users] gmail users Re: Chanell changing problem over firewire using sa3250ch

[Ken Beal]

I ask this with all due respect: why is the size of the email of any
concern?

For new people to the list (like me; I just signed up a few minutes ago and
already have 7 emails!), it is very helpful to have the entire conversation
contained in the response that I'm reading, so I don't have to scratch my
head and waste time wandering over to the archives to see the previous
pieces of the conversation.

So there's at least two very good reasons to keep it the way it is:
information stays in one place, and the burden on the reader is reduced.

Could you please enlighten me with your reasons for wanting to reduce the
email size?

I'm serious; I'm not being antagonistic, but that may not show through in
text so I'm disclaiming it with this paragraph.

Sincerely,
Ken Beal

PS Because you (or one of the previous responders) already trimmed the below
email, I do not know if you have already stated your reasons, and am
therefore at risk of being slightly antagonistic by not looking them up in
the archives right now.  However, I'm hoping that this instantiates my
point, as opposed to just describing it.


On 2/25/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>
> On 02/25/2006 06:20 PM, Isaac Richards wrote:
> > On Saturday 25 February 2006 17:47, Steve Hodge wrote:
> >
> >> On 2/26/06, Asher <freedenizen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On 2/25/06, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> If all of the people using gmail don't start trimming your replies
> >>>> properly, I'm going to start moderating (and very likely, discarding)
> >>>> all posts from the domain.  This is just ridiculous.  It's not
> >>>> everyone, but it _is_ the majority of gmail users.
> >>>>
> >>> Is there a way to filter by "> > > >" or something?  I'd hate to lose
> >>> my ability to post, and I find it annoying too.  So maybe there is a
> >>> way to discard mail that you can tell has excessive quotes in it.
> >>>
> >> If you could reliably detect quoted signatures that would probably be
> >> a good indication that the email has not been trimmed carefully
> >> enough.
> >>
> > That's what I was thinking originally - look for, say, more than one of
> the
> > mailman footers in the message and dump it out there. I can't figure out
> how
> > to make mailman do that  (at most, it'll seem to do filtering on the
> message
> > headers).  However, I _can_ block the domain very easily.
> >
>
> It seems the mailman devs have purposefully left the content filtering
> system very basic, taking the "right tool for the job" approach
> (pre-filter content with something else).  Have you considered setting
> up procmail before mailman?
>
> Mike
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