Re: successful build - i686-pc-cygwin

[Phil Edwards <pedwards at disaster dot jaj dot com>]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:43:47PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Maybe we could automatically moderate anything that looks like it has a
> signature longer than n lines.  I don't know what "n" should be, though.
> I wouldn't mind if it was 3 but I'm sure that others would disagree --
> especially the gcc mailing list owners who would be doing the moderation. :-)

The time-honored McQuary limit is 4 lines, but we'd still have to detect
signatures which don't start with the "\n\n-- \n" character sequence.

Phil

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