Re: Time to unsubscribe...
Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling from mattd@useoz.com and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters. If someone knows of a filtered version of this list, please let me know.
Since you seem to be ignorant msoft user, use made-for-idiots yahoo throwaway and set this in the "block addresses" (under options): declan@well.com jchoate@dev.tivoli.com jchoate@tivoli.com jchoate@us.tivoli.com" jim_choate/tivoli_systems@us.ibm.com mattd@useoz.com ravage@einstein.ssz.com ravage@ssz.com sandfort@mindspring.com tcmay@got.net
Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling from mattd@useoz.com and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters. If someone knows of a filtered version of this list, please let me know.
Since you seem to be ignorant msoft user, use made-for-idiots yahoo throwaway and set this in the "block addresses" (under options):
Just for the record, I'm not an ignorant MS user. I'm an ignorant user of something else, far more subtle. [list snipped] Choate and Mattd seem to be responsible for more than half the traffic, and basically none of the value on this list. I think it would be almost tolerable without them on it. Ok, time to figure out the mysteries of filtering.
For procmail (available on Linux systems; for other Unix systems download from procmail.org): 1. Use a .forward file to forward to procmail: Mine looks like this, your might have a different path: "|exec /usr/local/bin/procmail" 2. Edit a .procmailrc for procmail to use. It's not that hard, there are some good docs ("man procmailrc") Some extracts from mine: -- start of snippet from .procmailrc PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin/ MAILDIR=$HOME/mail DEFAULT=/var/mail/gbnewby LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/procmail.log # Backup the last 32 messages (per 'man procmailex') :0 c backup :0 ic | cd backup && rm -f dummy `ls -t msg.* | sed -e 1,32d` # Temporary redirects while I'm out of town: #:0 H #* cypherpunk # cypher-unread # Grep the header for @toad.com; put it in 'toad' mail folder # This might cut down on cypherpunks spam :0 H * @toad.com spam :0 H * ^Subject:.*Snowhite spam # tcmay's a pain in the ass :0 H * From:.*tcmay@got.net spam # Yes, people still use friend@public.com! :0 * ^To: Friend@public.com spam # Everything else just gets appended to DEFAULT -- end of snippet In the above, "spam" is a mail folder (literally, just a file). So, you can still read the stuff there... if you want to delete it permanently, use /dev/null instead of "spam" This will work fine with any Unix mail program that uses local files -- you'd need something different if you use IMAP or POP. 3. test, test test!!! You can do much more sophisticated filtering with procmail, but I find that most of what I want is to filter the To, From or Subject line based on a string or substring. -- Greg On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 10:14:51PM -0000, Dr. Evil wrote:
Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling from mattd@useoz.com and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters. If someone knows of a filtered version of this list, please let me know.
Since you seem to be ignorant msoft user, use made-for-idiots yahoo throwaway and set this in the "block addresses" (under options):
Just for the record, I'm not an ignorant MS user. I'm an ignorant user of something else, far more subtle.
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Choate and Mattd seem to be responsible for more than half the traffic, and basically none of the value on this list. I think it would be almost tolerable without them on it. Ok, time to figure out the mysteries of filtering.
On Tuesday, December 25, 2001, at 02:14 PM, Dr. Evil wrote:
Basically half the posts to this list are incoherent, idiotic rambling from mattd@useoz.com and ravage@... The few bits of wonderfully interesting news on this list aren't quite wonderful enough to motivate me to figure out how to use mail filters. If someone knows of a filtered version of this list, please let me know.
Since you seem to be ignorant msoft user, use made-for-idiots yahoo throwaway and set this in the "block addresses" (under options):
Just for the record, I'm not an ignorant MS user. I'm an ignorant user of something else, far more subtle.
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Choate and Mattd seem to be responsible for more than half the traffic, and basically none of the value on this list. I think it would be almost tolerable without them on it. Ok, time to figure out the mysteries of filtering.
I use two kinds of filtering: 1. Mail filters. For nearly 10 years, I used Eudora and Eudora Pro. Now I am using OS X Mail, but may switch to Entourage (packaged with Microsoft Office). All of these mail filters are incredibly easy to learn to use. (Being that OS X is largely FreeBSD, I'm sure I could use regular expression filtering, but so far, no need.) 2. Eric Murray's lne.com node, which filters out any source not subscribed to the list, basically. Choate and mattd get filtered into the trash by my own filters, though I can see their posts in the garbage if I get bored. (Also, mattd doesn't consistently filter into the trash properly...no idea why. If I manually run the filters, it works.) Filtering mail is a necessity these days. --Tim May "Dogs can't conceive of a group of cats without an alpha cat." --David Honig, on the Cypherpunks list, 2001-11
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