Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-25 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Ah, you don't have BBDB picking up addresses in newsgroups too? Since I > have that turned on I'll always get some crud; I guess the expiry code > is really aimed at people who do such collection. No, I have auto-create, with caveats, for mail, and not

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-25 Thread Nix
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Ronan Waide stated: > Well, no. I tend to work on the idea that the crud shouldn't get in > there in the first place. I have a hook that checks that the mail is > actually addressed to me, which catches a whole bunch of spam, and > then a fairly well-defined filter list that c

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-25 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > I *must* get that BBDB expiry hack updated for BBDB-2.2 so you don't > have to do that anymore... > Well, no. I tend to work on the idea that the crud shouldn't get in there in the first place. I have a hook that checks that the mail is actually addre

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Nix
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Ronan Waide stated: > That's correct, nor do I want one. I do my best to keep all manner of > crud out of my bbdb! I *must* get that BBDB expiry hack updated for BBDB-2.2 so you don't have to do that anymore... -- `I put "Update To-Do List" on my to-do list. I'm never sure

hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Thomas E Deweese
> "RW" == Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RW> [developer question, stop here if you're not familiar with bbdb RW> internals!] Anyone know offhand what I break by taking the RW> company name out of BBDB's hashtable? Well, I ran into this when doing the 'duplicate-record' stuff.

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > So you actually have someone with the same _complete_ name as a > Company? Weird! :) > Well, it's not that. I have two or three people who work for Stepstone in my BBDB. When I get emails from stepstone's jobalert system, the "real name" on the m

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I'm guessing you don't have a BBDB record for the jobalert system? > Thus BBDB says well I have this name, and I have four records that > seem to match it some how, but none of the nets match, what to do? > That's correct, nor do I want one. I do my

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Thomas E Deweese
> "RW" == Ronan Waide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RW> On February 21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> So you actually have someone with the same _complete_ name as a >> Company? Weird! :) RW> Well, it's not that. I have two or three people who work for RW> Stepstone in my BBDB. When I get email

Re: hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
PS Thomas, I can't mail your kodak address directly because kodak's militant mail filter doesn't like hostnames with "dialup" in them. Waider. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Yes, it /is/ very personal of me. I really need to reinstate the witty comments, dammit. __

hashing by company name

2001-02-21 Thread Ronan Waide
[developer question, stop here if you're not familiar with bbdb internals!] Anyone know offhand what I break by taking the company name out of BBDB's hashtable? I can find one instance of setting it, and get-hash calls that read it are only used to tell you you've got a duplicate - which is wrong;