Zone On the Range

Eric Murray ericm at lne.com
Wed Mar 28 08:32:59 PST 2001


On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 02:51:34AM -0400, Adam Back wrote:
> This is cryptic -- how do I know what this link will be about from your
> subject line.  Can't you quote as ascii the first paragraph, or write your
> own summary, or something?
> 
> If you can't be bothered to do that, the reference is not useful; it's just
> a random pointer.  Historically most of them are not even remotely crypto
> related.
> 
> I asked politely in private email if you would consider providing summaries. 
> I received no reply.  If you aren't going to provide summaries and
> meaningful subject lines, I politely ask that you stop sending the list
> random URLs.
> 
> Adam


Asking Jim to make his posts "meaningful" doesn't do anything other
than annoy Jim and add to the clutter on the list.  If readers do
not find Jim's posts worth reading, then they should not waste their
time reading them.

Below is a procmail script fragment to filter out Jim's cypherpunks posts
into a seperate folder without affecting any other mail he might send to
the recipient.  If you wanted you could get fancier and also filter on
"slashdot" in the mail body.


# mailing lists:
:0
* ^From.*owner-cypherpunks at .*
{
	:0:
	* (^From:.*ravage at .*\.ssz\.com.*|\
	^From:.*ravage at ssz\.com.*)
	choate

	# default is read:
	:0:
	cypherspool
}





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