Annoying ML complains about "suspicious header"

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 10:44 +0200, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> 
> Right, and I am embarrassed because of the typos. Indeed I wanted to
> say: "solving social problems with technical means never works well".

Oh, it does. HTML is a social problem, and the technical solution works.

The threading thing is also a social problem — even now there are plenty
of people who are just lazy and inconsiderate, and will hit 'reply' on
an existing thread and change the subject instead of properly creating a
new one.

In both cases there is a *big* correlation between the people who can't
be bothered with the technicalities of sending a proper email, and the
people who can't actually manage to write coherently in the email itself
(or who are asking stupid questions because they're equally lazy in
finding things for themselves). We don't lose much, by banning HTML and
(genuinely) stupid threading abuse.

The complexity with the threading check is that it has false positives
with patch sets, because we *expect* those to be in a thread but without
the normal 'Re:' in the subject. The check already does have an
exemption if it finds [Pp][Aa][Tt][Cc][Hh] in the subject — Rafał,
looking at the four messages in the moderation queue from you, if you'd
just said [RFC PATCH] and [WIP PATCH] instead of just [RFC] and [WIP]
alone, then they'd have sailed straight through.

However, it looks like I could further reduce the number of false
positives on this check by just exempting *all* messages with X-Mailer:
header containing 'git-send-email', and that would have fixed it for all
your recent postings too. I've made that change.

-- 
dwmw2
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