[FFmpeg-soc] add logo to video

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Víctor Paesa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Dec 3, 2007 3:33 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 12:30:33PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:33:49AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > the first hit in Google to find out.  I would not bother trying to help
> > > > him like you guys are doing, but ignore him instead.  Sad but true.
> > >
> > > everyone first helps and is shocked by the attitude of people like you
> > > have nowadays :)
> > > then after a few years on a mailinglist of a somewhat bigger and popular
> > > project everyone ends with the same attitude of "just ignore these mails"
> > > or even more evil things
> > >
> > > iam wondering if theres anyone who isnt following that trend, it doesnt
> > > seem so if even you have now finally succumbed to the dark side ...
> >
> > It is sad to be disillusioned, but it may well be a fact of life.
> > Nowadays I mostly dismiss mails with Outlook (Express) in the X-Mailer
> > field or from known-broken webmail addresses right away.  The signal to
> > noise ratio is just too low in my experience.
> 
> Hey, maybe it is because I still remember my first mails here (using a
> @hotmail.com address), but I still have some hope in Mr. "jgh lrhgI": he
> has switched to the right mail list, and he is fighting to use the
> libavfilter API (and we do not have too many developers here).
> 
> > I also have the impression that mailing list etiquette is in decline
> > among newcomers.
> 
> Fully agree, also real life etiquette is declining, maybe we are
> getting too old ;o)

yeah, that reminds me that i read somewhere that the ancient greek 2000years
ago where also complaining about the worseing of peoples especially youth
manners
i guess we are forgeting that we once didnt know what top posting is, how
to quote properly, which ML to use for something, how to code, ...

i think someone should write a little script which detects bad mails and
sends replies with clear explanations for these as well as helping people
unsubscribe and all that
for safety the script might also ask a human first before sending a mail
to prevent even more nonsense floating around
(it would reduce the work to a single keypress instead of writing an actual
mail ...)

detecting many bad things is easy (though its also easy to mess up)

too long lines detection:
if more them 50% of the non quoted non empty lines are >80 chars

top posting detection:
if more text is before the 
"On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:13:11PM +0100, Víctor Paesa wrote:"
line than non quoted non / signature text after it

too large signature detection:
well if sig is larger then 5 lines, this would also detect these
confidential delete the mail you are not blah footers

thread hijacking:
if no Re: in subject but inreplyto header

...

Note: such a script can be run as a cronjob on any ones system no need
to change anything on the server
Note2: and for maximum effect, choose a female name as sender and make the
script send mails which appear to be written by a human instead of a script

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

If a bugfix only changes things apparently unrelated to the bug with no
further explanation, that is a good sign that the bugfix is wrong.
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