On 5/22/14 6:48 PM, "Karsten Bräckelmann" <guent...@rudersport.de> wrote:
>On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 18:34 -0500, David B Funk wrote:
>> After doing some experimenting with that code I came up with something
>>that
>> I'd argue is more semantically correct:
>>
>> # if we've got a long series of blank lines, limit them
>> if (defined $start) {
>> my $max_blank_lines = 20;
>> my $num = $start-$cnt;
>> if ($num > $max_blank_lines) {
>> splice @message, $cnt+2, $num-$max_blank_lines;
>> }
>> undef $start;
>> }
>>
>> IE limit a message to no more than "$max_blank_lines" in a row, not the
>>total
>> collapse of more than 11. (adjust $max_blank_lines as you see fit or
>>make it
>> a configurable parameter).
>
>+1
>
>Can you file a bug report or raise the topic in dev@ list? The code
>change is sufficiently simple, but I want that issue discussed first.
>Wonder what's the reason for that collapsing in the first place.
Did any decision on this get reached? I'm tired enough of that particular
flavor of spam that I'm considering making David's modifications locally
to Message.pm -- but obviously I'd prefer to leave the core modules
unmolested if there's an "official" fix in the works.
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