[Teammetrics-discuss] Next phase: Handling spam

Andreas Tille andreas at an3as.eu
Fri Jun 10 12:14:03 UTC 2011


Hi Sukhbir,

I think you have a point but what with those people who are using TOFU
full quoting for sending just one sentence like in this example?

Kind regards

        Andreas.

On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 03:50:29PM +0530, Sukhbir Singh wrote:
> I have a very interesting idea.
> 
> For pure fun, I generated the mailing list statistics of
> teammetrics-discuss including the current month.
> 
>     andreas at an3as.eu (Andreas Tille) - 18
>     sukhbir.in at gmail.com (Sukhbir Singh) - 35
>     showard314 at gmail.com (Scott Howard) - 1
> 
> Now, here is the interesting thing that I noticed. Sure, I might have
> written more mails but that is usually because I forget some point and
> write a new mail. And that is why there are 35 mails in all.
> 
> But if you compare the recent emails, your mails have more length than
> mine. By length, I mean the number of lines within the body of the
> mail.
> 
> I was wondering -- why don't we have this as a metric also? We can
> easily get the number of lines in the message body. And lines starting
> with a '>' can be ignored, but all other lines are counted and
> considered a metric.
> 
> Your thoughts? I am pretty sure that if we take the recent mails, the
> 'From' part will be higher for me but the body length will be higher
> for you.
> 

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