On May 16, 2000 at 01:23, Vishal Doshi wrote:

>Hmm.. It was meant to make a point. I don't want advice from SHELL users on
>how much to quote.

Oh? Perhaps shell users are some lower form of life that you don't want to
associate with?

>I don't want to discuss netiquette. I want to discuss linux/gnu etc.

Then why have you posted reams of Outlook macro?

>anycase. I can write a vishal filter for anyone who does not want to read my
>mail. :(
>Here is an outlook 2k macro ....

Bah.

:0:
* ^From:.*[EMAIL PROTECTED]
/dev/null

There. 3 lines.

>cut and save as a userform. Import into outlook 2k. RUN. or set rule to run
>when mail arrives.

Which version of Outlook runs on X?

>is concerned.  to folder LUG-JNK. (leave it there. Programs like altavista
>discovery can index it ... )

I'd prefer /dev/null.

>I use a variant of MailCat (altered by yours truly) (search ACM.org (you
>will need a account. $39 pa)) that relies on loads of text to learn about my

Bah. I'll stick with freshmeat.

>preferences. It auto moves, deletes and classifies mail for me. You can also
>search acm.org for stuff on text classification.

Auto-move and classify are handled by procmail for me.

>PS: I never ever delete mail. My mail folder is 600 MB right now. All
>indexed by Altavista discovery. Keeping loads of context helps me.

What a waste of disk space.

>so I can search my mail for stuff like
>'mail about kernel 2.2.x' (what if the original query is found but not the
>reply ? I can;t remember all the keywords. Sometimes imp info is lost.)

rgrep -i "2.2.." ~/mail

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