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Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette



Am 2007-05-09 09:50:30, schrieb Andrew Sackville-West:
> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 01:17:43PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> > On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 14:52:28 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > :0
> > > * ^.*debianhelp.org
> > > /dev/null
> > > 
> > > is approved!!!
> > 
> > It may be better to use
> > 
> > * ^Message-Id:.*debianhelp.org
> > 
> > otherwise there might be some collateral damage: Since debianhelp.org
> > puts this string into their (long and ugly) message IDs it tends to
> > propagate into other people's mail headers via the "In-Reply-To" and
> > "References" fields.
> 
> I'm not sure that's a bad thing. as disjointed as the threads with the
> debianhelp stuff already in there, they'd be even more so with it
> removed, but the messages that follow still intact.  I suppose a
> killfile would be the way to go instead of using /dev/null. Then the
> whole sub-thread would disappear. 

Why not:

----8<------------------------------------------
:0
* ^Message-ID:.*debianhelp.org
/dev/null

:0fw
* ^References:.*debianhelp.org
|sed 's/debianhelp.\org/xxxxxxxxxx.xxx/g'
----8<------------------------------------------

which will kill all messages coming from <debianhelp.org>
and then remove the reference to <debianhelp.org> from
other messages without breaking threads...

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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