A word on the subject of altering the list from the list maintainer. There's been lots of discussion about splitting up the list into various pieces. In a word, it's not going to happen. Look, this is the cypherpunks list. Cypherpunks write code. A corollary to this is that cypherpunks take responsibility for the volume of mail they receive. If you're getting too much mail, use a filter. Many of you may not know that the remailer software as currently configured pressed into service just such a filter. In the just-announced ftp site, there's the source code, in perl, to just such a filter. You can change it to do whatever you like. In particular, you can install it to filter all your cypherpunks mail to a separate mailbox, file, or subdirectory. You can also use MH, whose slocal the above perl filter was based on. slocal can filter all of your cypherpunks mail to separate places. You can also send all of your cypherpunks mail to a separate directory and use a newsreader to read it. I've never done this, but certain list members have. If one of them (say, Mitra, who recently mentioned that he does this) would post a short summary of how it's done to the list and offer to answer questions off-line, I'd appreciate it. Eric
Sure Eric, I'm on SCO unix (i.e. non compatible with everyone else - I cant even get perl running yet), I've added the following lines to my .maildelivery To cypherpunks@toad.com | A inews -0 -a list -n list.cypherpunks Cc cypherpunks@toad.com | A inews -0 -a list -n list.cypherpunks Apparently-To cypherpunks@toad.com | A inews -0 -a list -n list.cypherpunks This catches the three most common address headers, unfortunately the mailing list at cypherpunks doesnt behave like a well-behaved reflecter should and put its own address in the header (most would add "Sender: cypherpunks@toad.com") All this does is pipe messages that match the headers into inews with the args following. Those args are: -0 An extension I added, which makes inews always return 0 (otherwise our braindead delivery agent "mmdf" cycles forever trying to deliver bad messages and creating a HUGE dead.article. -a list Add an "Approved: list" line so that inews will post it to a moderated newsgroup -n list.cypherpunks Stick it in the newsgroup "list.cypherpunks" list.cypherpunks is set up moderated, with the moderater being cypherpunks@toad.com Happy gatewaying, if someone has a better way of doing this then let me know. - Mitra -- Mitra mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us Technical Director, Pandora Systems (415)488-0944
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