On Mon, 1 Jul 2002, Dale Botkin wrote:

>Good question, I'll look into that.  What I'd really like is to also have
>it reject any post exceeding a certain ratio of quoted material to
>original material, to see if we can get people to trim posts when
>replying.  You know, the infamous 500 quoted lines with "me too" or
>something similar as the only reply.

Me too. Set up a filter that counts lines with '>'s as the first
printable character and does not allow posts with more than X such lines.
Where X should be 100 or so (about four screens of it). Something like

MAXQUOTED=100
LEN=`<message.tmp wc -l`
LEN1=`<message.tmp grep -vE '^[ \t]>'|wc -l`
if [ $LEN1 -gt $MAXQUOTED ]; then
  LEN=$[ $LEN - $LEN1 + $MAXQUOTED ]
fi
head $LEN <message.tmp >message.tmp1

Of course you would not write this in shell language but in your favorite
exploit-proof [tm] scripting language. There are ways to shorten just the
quoted parts if you want to. They will no longer make sense but as
someone's sig says, you can never beat all of them, and a solution that
sometimes works is better than a theoretically perfect solution here.

Peter

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