Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:06:40 +0100 (MET) From: Mark Habersack Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl To: Eli Zaretskii cc: Aaron M Clemmer , djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: I need to talk to a guy In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > >On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Aaron M Clemmer wrote: > >> On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:11:23 +0000 "bartosz" >> writes: >> >What do you think about filling up swebber AT nether DOT net e-mail box. >> >Let each send him a letter. >> No kidding... I hate it when newsgroups get spammed with ads, but >> I really hate it when a mailing list, of all things, does. > >A mail reflector software runs on the DJ Delorie's server, which >automatically reflects all traffic from comp.os.msdos.djgpp to the >mailing list and vice versa. Hence everything which goes to the >group is also reflected to the list. Maybe a simple preprocessing script should be set up to trash the obviously unwanted messages from being passed along? I mean there is a certain pattern in all these messages that makes it possible to rule them out - maybe procmail would help? /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Stand straight, look me in the eye and say goodbye Stand straight, we drifted past the point of reasons why, Yesterday starts tommorow, tommorow starts today, The problems always seem to be we're picking up the pieces on the ricochet /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ http://ananke.amu.edu.pl/~grendel \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/