checkincludedtext behavior

[Russ Allbery]

Jeffrey M Vinocur <jeff at litech.org> writes:

> We have a feature request to make the cutoff length below which
> checkincludedtext in inn.conf does not apply (currently 20 lines; was 40
> lines in the past) customizable.

> I suppose the thing to do is to pull it into inn.conf and additionally
> make it overridable in readers.conf (just like checkincludedtext).
> Maybe make the ratio between new and included customizable as well?

> Or do we want to declare that anybody who wants to fiddle with this
> should just disable it and use a posting filter?

I'm leaning a bit towards the latter, but I don't have a very strong
opinion.  I've always considered the included text check to be pretty
worthless, so I'm probably the wrong person to be deciding; I'd be
interested to hear from someone who actually uses it.

The other variable that people want to tweak from time to time is the set
of characters that are considered quote characters.  My intuition is that
in order to really be generally applicable the code would need more
degrees of freedom than its importance warrants putting into inn.conf and
the documentation and making everyone look at.

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