Feeding the trolls

[Gregory Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 21:49:15 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:
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>>Design requirements for python newsreader client:
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>>1. Block all top posters
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> I think it would be far more useful to block bottom-posters who don't 
> snip irrelevant quoted text.

In the early days of Usenet, it was common for news servers to
refuse posts that didn't have a high enough ratio of new to
quoted text.
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It was easily defeated, of course. :-) But at least it forced you
to think about the issue.

-- 
Greg