[Mailman-Developers] Fwd: Boilerplate and content filtering [was: Introduction and Project Discussion]

[Sreyanth]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 4:13 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>wrote:

> Sreyanth writes:
>
>  > I I understood it before too. I proposed this JS approach, as I wondered
>  > why people would anyhow look at the boilerplate! (That's the main point
> of
>  > the project right!)​
>
> Depends on your definition of "boilerplate".  I consider quoted
> mailing lists' footers and those stupid corporate legal notices to be
> boilerplate, and they're generally far more annoying than "sent from
> my iPhone" because they often separate the text from attachments and
> the like by more than a few lines.
>
> Worse, quoted footers are often actively harmful, because they contain
> "unsubscribe" links for somebody else (but all the user can see is
> "click here to unsubscribe").
>
> I completely forgot this "unsubscribe" links! Thanks for reminding :-)
Will add in the application!
Also, I want to know if I am in a correct path to make " Boilerplate
stripping AND better content filtering / handling error messages" a worthy
GSoC project.​​ All this discussion here in the mailing lists encourages me
to learn more and do more and I am looking forward to submit my application
for an early review!

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*Yours Sincerely*
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*Mora Sreyantha Chary*
*Computer Engineering '14*
*National Institute of Technology Karnataka*
*Surathkal, India 575 025*