Re: Filtering (was Re: Worse then useless replies)

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:45:47 -0800
Andrew Sackville-West <andrew@farwestbilliards.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 09:34:00AM -0800, Raquel wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 12:14:40 -0500
> > Kevin Mark <kevin.mark@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> > > it seem more than a few of us regulars have tried to be 'helpful'
> > > and he/she seems to think this mail list reply method _is_
> > > helpful. Not much more we can do.
> > > -- 
> > 
> > Oh well.  According to the statistics, I'm already filtering out
> > more than half of this list due to "off-topic" posts with political
> > rants and "one-upmanship".  What is adding one more procmail filter
> > going to cost me?
> > 
> 
> more and more of your precious /dev/null space. don't forget to empty
> that thing now and then. I use a cron job:
> 
> cat /dev/zero > /dev/null
> 
> 
> ;)
> 
> A

I think you're making a serious mistake; that won't empty /dev/null,
it'll just zero it out, but it'll still keep on growing. You need to
compact it; see the recent thread about compacting / deleting mail ...

Celejar