[freelists-users] Re: Something doesn't work

  • From: "m o r r y" <morry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 23:44:12 -0400


I never got bounces or error reports before like this. Suddenly today I had
a big chunk of hotmail problems.

Perhaps Hotmail changed something.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Dickson" <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: [freelists-users] Re: Something doesn't work


>
> On Wed, 4 Sep 2002 12:16:47 +0200, Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono wrote:
>
> >
> > I have set the quoting-max-lines, but a user always send overquoted
> > mails, and they are never moderated. I tried once to send an overquoted
> > mail, and it *was* moderated... Why doesn't it work with some users?
> >
> > Moreover it looks like tag-to-front doesn't work... it was always on,
> > but there's plenty of messages with completely broken subjects, like "
> > [lano666] Re: [lano666] Re: Non dire cazzate"
> >
> > Are they bugs or did i do something wrong?
>
> The quoting-max-lines is looking for consecutive lines like your message I
> included.  If blank lines are included, the count starts over.
>
> Also, I've seen some MUA that "reply" in the manner usually used for
> forwarding.  These messages have quoted lines of text that don't begin
> with ">"s.
>
> Another possibility is that the quoted material are paragraphs that are on
> a single line (one paragraph on a REALLY long line).  These add very
> slowly toward the quoting-max-lines.
>
> Take your pick of a possible explanations.
>
>
> As for tag-to-front, it works for this list (at least according to the
> description of what it's supposed to do).  My lists have it on and it
> behaves the same way as this list.  This message's subject line is
> currently "Re: [freelists-users] Something doesn't work", and I'm assume
> it will change prior to being exploded.
>
> Are the "Re:" or "[lano666]" characters encoded as 7-bit ASCII?  8-bit
> characters might cause matching to fail.  Also check the configured tag
> value in Ecartis too.
>
> -Paul
>
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