posts from web-forum

[Vincent Trouilliez]

> Has anyone noticed that posts to this mailing list from the web-forum
> often have double-spaced text.  

Yeah I noticed this too, no later than yesterday, as I was in Breezy,
where Evolution is broken, so had to use the web forum to post here...

> I'm guessing it's something to do with carriage returns and line feeds
> getting mixed up somewhere. 

Probably yes...

> Can it be fixed or does nobody really care?

Would be great if it could be fixed, but I don't think it's a big
problem, as not mant people post from forum. If one intends to post
regularly here, I think he is clever enough to subscribe to the mailing
list and use his e-mail client like everyone else.

Also, I find that having double carriage returns, every now and then,
does a loooot less harm than these countless posts that quote literally
several pages of irrelevant text and add only one line (or just one word
sometimes...) of comment. Not only does it wastes BW and server space,
but the real problem is for people who chose to receive daily digest. It
renders such digests simply un-readable/useable.
Maybe we should have a feature in the list server, that would reject a
new mail, if the "new text versus comment text" ratio is under 20% or
so. Anything below this would be considered as abuse and rejected/not
posted. Well, just an idea... ;-)


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Vince