From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnt Karlsen Subject: ..abusive quoting, was: netfilter digest, Vol 1 #514 - 7 msgs (was Re: portforwarding-HOWTO) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 00:27:36 +0100 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <20030111002736.31f57c85.arnt@c2i.net> References: <20030108052635.5370.76979.Mailman@kashyyyk> <14780.192.168.0.1.1042018341.squirrel@mail.intermediacorp.com> <200301101507.12420.netfilter@newkirk.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200301101507.12420.netfilter@newkirk.us> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org On Fri, 10 Jan 2003 15:07:12 -0500, Joel Newkirk wrote in message <200301101507.12420.netfilter@newkirk.us>: > Please snip unrelated material out of a digest message when replying - > the other six messages had nothing to do with this... A single-line > response with over 450 quoted lines is a big waste, especially since > you didn't sign the response making it appear that there might be > more you had added further on in the quoted part. ..one way is have the list reject these long appended digest quotes with such give-aways as "netfilter digest, Vol 1 #514 - 7 msgs" in the subject line. The appropriate response IMNTHO is return these abuses back to the abuser, asking him to remove his abusive waste before reposting. Procmail can automate this. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;-) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.