[FFmpeg-devel] Filtering clueless-user spam from the lists

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:36:37PM +0100, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Wednesday 23 January 2008 02:07-kor Rich Felker ezt ?rta:
> > On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 01:44:13AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:43:35PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> >
> > > > All of these are trivial procmail recipes.
> > >
> > > yes, and ive even volunteered to write these recipes at some point in the
> > > past
> >
> > Will these work?
> 
> I think this is not enough. The only solution is an FFmpeg SWAT team, that 
> constatntly monitors the lists, finds any offenders, and physically 
> eliminates them. There really is no other solution to a problem of such 
> proprortions (remember, we are talking about AT LEAST 1 occurence every week 
> here). 
> 
> I think this can be financed from the donations to ffmpeg.

As humorous as this idea is, broken threading and thread hijacking are
100% detectable algorithmically. We can leave the SWAT team the
tougher tasks that actually require human intervention. :)

Rich