Re: Wish: "rate of new info" for scoring

[Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel Janík)]

   From: Jesper Harder <harder@ifa.au.dk>
   Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:27:32 +0200

   > > I'd like to be able to automatically score down articles that are
   > > written using the well known style of Outlook users, ie:
   > 
   > I use a scoring rule like this for scoring down top posters:

Maybe I was not too exact. I do not want to score down top posters. I want
to score down on the amount of quote lines from original mail compared to
new (ie not quoted) lines. Both top and bottom posters can cite in *bad*
way:

Bad top poster will send this:

--- cut here ---
Yes

>
> ... here is the complete original mail ...
>

--- cut here ---

Bad bottom poster will send this:

--- cut here ---
>
> ... here is the complete original mail ...
>

Yes
--- cut here ---

Both are BAD and should be scored down ;-)
-- 
Pavel Janík

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