[FFmpeg-devel] Filtering clueless-user spam from the lists

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 08:07:35PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:44:13AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:43:35PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > I'm wondering if we could implement a few idiot-proofing filters for
> > > the ffmpeg lists to keep annoyances down. Some ideas to auto-reject:
> > > 
> > > - Mail cross-posted to more than one ffmpeg list
> > >   (annoying user questions cross-posted to devel list)
> > > 
> > > - Mail with Re: in subject but no In-Reply-To: header
> > >   (broken threading)
> > > 
> > > - Mail without Re: in subject but containing In-Reply-To: header
> > >   (thread hijacking)
> > > 
> > > All of these are trivial procmail recipes.
> > 
> > yes, and ive even volunteered to write these recipes at some point in the
> > past
> 
> Will these work?

Whichever rules are going to be used (assuming any are ...)
they must be tested against at least 1 year of past ffmpeg-dev ML traffic
to ensure they dont block correct mails

your filters would have blocked all patches send by git i think ...

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