[101207] in RedHat Linux List
Re: , and other animals
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Wed Nov 25 06:40:19 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:41:27 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9811242337420.10966-100000@winbuster.magic.fr>; from Zoki on Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 11:46:11PM +0100
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Zoki writes:
> Dear list members,
>=20
[...]
>=20
> ####### Would it help if I launched a last request to accept the tag <OFF>
> as the only one to be used when marking off topic subjects!?? Otherwise,
> the whole procedure will be useless and quite annoying. ########
Just thought of something else:
The off-topic tag can basically be used for two purposes, right? That's
a) manual filtering while reading the list
for manual filtering I don't think it's critical to have The One Tag[tm],
as long as the tags used are reasonably obvious (<TID> - to me - is
not..., but [OT], <OFF>, <OT> are, IMO) - I mean, my personal parser
which comes built-in with my brain works with fuzzy logic anyway... ;-)
b) procmail filtering
I don't think this is critical, either. There aren't *that* many
variations out there, so a receipe like this:
:0
* ! ^Subject: *[OT]
* ! ^Subject: *<OT>
* ! ^Subject: *<OFF>
{
# Did match all of the conditions above -- good, do nothing
}
# If it didn't match one of the conditions in the previous recipe, it
# ends up here=20
:0E:
/dev/null
should do the job nicely - and it would'n be all that difficult to add a
few more lines if it should become necessary. And the above receipe
should already catch most variations.
=20
Just my =A30.02,
Thomas
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