Re: KTODO automated TODO lists

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Linus,

On Mon, Oct 23, 2023 at 8:56 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2023 at 08:49, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> > Well here's a task: write a bot which follows the mailing lists and
> > sends people nastygrams if one of their emails is more than 95%(?)
> > quoted text.
>
> I think that might be better off as a spam filter rule.
>
> Don't make it some after-the-fact "trawl the lists". Just make it a
> bounce with a "you quoted too much". Same as the html avoidance.
>
> Make it ok to quote 15 lines of commit message for a "Reviewed-by:"
> kind of reply, but if it's more than 50 lines of quoting, trigger a
> "at least equal parts new message".

How to handle the (unfortunately fairly common) case of
reply-with-CC-of-forgotten-relevant-person_added?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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