(I can't believe people replied to this...I was joking) * Philipp Thomas (philippt@t-online.de) [011124 08:21]:
* Christopher Mahmood [Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:45:35 -0800]:
o known-to-be-bad email clients
Which would be? Outlook itself isn't a bad email client, only the default settings are nowhere near acceptable.
Well, I said this came from usenet and there are objectively bad newsreaders (anything in webbrowser fro instance). Is Outlook the one with the broken encoding that sticks a '=' at the end of every record? Yeah, I think that would have to go ;)
o messages with high quoting ratios
How do differentiate that from a full quote done on purpose?
You don't. There are so few legitimate reasons for quoting something in full, especially on a mailing list where you don't have to worry about your nntp losing posts, that it can be safely ignored.
But I wouldn't really go as far as blocking as that would IMHO be too hard a measure. I'd really prefer some common guidelines that people could be pointed to.
They're everywhere, but no reads them anyway.
Maybe we can even get down to 50 messages/day!
Somehow I can't help the feeling that there are a few smileys missing ;-)
Yes, I was joking b/c some many people seemed terrified of the German Etikette list that I was just having fun with them...imagine the ml-admin wearing jack-boots and carrying a riding crop :) -- -ckm