Beavis B. Thoopit wrote:

| What news and mail filter programs are available? Pointers | will be appreciated.

I like procmail. Its a steep learning curve, but well worth the effort.

ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de:/pub/packages/procmail/procmail.tar.gz

I disagree about the grade of the curve. However I might have bumped into better learning resources. I'd suggest the following URL (lynx clean for us non-GUI CLImbers and CLUEful types)*: http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/ This is maintained by Nancy McGough (nancym@ii.com??). She and Stephen R. van den Berg (author of procmail) are active on the procmail mailing list: procmail@informatik.rwth-aachen.de And of course, subscription and information requests for this list to: procmail-request@informatik.rwth-aachen.de ---------------------------------------- I suppose (since this is my first posting to cypherpunks) I might as well introduce myself. I've been lurking on the list for about two weeks. This is the busiest list that I'm subscribed to. By comparison the Pegasus Mail list only gets a hundred messages a day. Well that one's at work so I see it every day -- the ones here at netcom I might flake on for a few days at a time. I've had a mild (armchair) interest in crypto since I was in high school. I heard of this list via netnews but actually got the address from someone at a Kabuki-west (a fairly small, discreet Bay Area social mailing list that's used to organize weekly dinners at area restaurants and announce other food related events to aspiring computer nerds -- such as me-- and other professionals). Given my lack of schooling and formal study on the subject I probably won't have much to say on this list. Given the volume of postings, and the relatively high signal to noise ratio (lots more politics than actual discussion of the technology from what I've seen) I'll be very lucky if I can wade through all this on weekends. My name is Jim Dennis. I'm a sysadmin (and webmaster, postmaster, and backup Netware supervisor) for a medium-sized software publisher in the Bay Area. I used to do tech support for places like Quarterdeck and Symantec. I've also done some SQA. Most of my experience is with DOS/Windows and PC's -- but most of my recent work is on Linux, FreeBSD, SunOS and Solaris. I most frequently post answers to the *.lang.awk newsgroups (which I'm writing an FAQ for). JaDeStar = Ja(mes) De(nnis) + Star(shine) [my girlfriend]. There's an alias to this account: starshine@netcom.com which hits a procmail script and gets redirected to Heather's (Starshine's) current e-mail address at work. This has been the easiest way to ensure a continuity to her e-mail address from one employer to another. She hardly ever logs into this account otherwise. If you want to know more about me -- ask in e-mail (off the list).