[Asterisk-Users] * INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ASTERISK COMMUNITY - PLEASE READ NOW *

[Walt Reed]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:28:50AM +0900, Sunrise Ltd said:
<snip>
> There is also some stuff that could be done automatically
> to keep the noise level down. For example ...
> 
> - any post to the list with the digest in the subject line
> or the digest in the body, should be auto-rejected.
> 
> - any post containing any kind of HTML, should be
> auto-rejected.

Agree 1000%. Any attachments other than PGP / SMIME signatures should be
rejected or stripped. If people want to post stuff, use a web or FTP
site and post a pointer.
 
> - any post containing with a very low new content to
> quotation ratio (ie 20 lines of quotation for a single
> line of new content) should have the quotation part
> automatically cut to size (ie no more than 5 lines of
> quotation per single line of new content apparently
> responding to that quotation)
<snip>

Rather than cutting quoted material automagically, if the system just
rejected any post with multiple copies of the mailing list footer that
would go a LONG way towards improving etiquette. Refering users to RFC
1855 may be helpful as well.