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From: Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:09:57 +0100
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Subject: Terrance
mike scott wrote:
On 1 Aug 2008 at 12:17, Jason Hunter wrote:
....
The "terrance" account was designed to silently listen to the mailing
list in order to produce an archive record for markmail.org. The
account was not designed to send email. The only time it is allowed
to send email is to (a) confirm its subscription and (b) confirm its
unsubscription.
In which case I'd suggest your coding philosophy is wrong. There is
/zero/ reason to code for such rare events - code which is hardly
testable, and best omitted, leaving [un]subscription to be done
manually. Then it can't possibly go wrong.... a "listener" should be
exactly that, IMO.
All this makes me feel glad I use gmane newsgroup access ;-)
Al
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To Alan Lord: please would you explain how using gmane newsgroup access
helps in this context?
I use Thunderbird to read gmane news and it doesn't run filters on news
messages so I can't avoid the terrance stuff. Thunderbird also doesn't
let you delete news messages that you didn't send so the terrance stuff
hangs around for days till Thunderbird removes it from your folder due
to its age. What am I missing, please?
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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