[NTLUG:Discuss] List Status

[Christopher Browne]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 12:40:34 CST, the world broke into rejoicing as
Mark Bickel <eusmb at exu.ericsson.se>  said:
> > Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:01:54 -0600
> > From: Kevin Brannen <kbrannen at gte.net>
> > To: discuss at ntlug.org
> > Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] List Status
> > MadHat wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think there's enough volume and/or topic spread to warrant a
> > new mailing list just for help.  I'd vote for staying where we are
> > now.  Come on folks, the "DELETE" key or button really isn't all that
> > hard to hit. :-)
> 
> Yes! I agree. Perhaps there is a thought that a separate "help" list would
> actually result in more questions answered, problems solved. I seriously
> doubt that would be the result.
> 
> 1) The discuss list is not so busy that it warrants being split up.
> 2) For those who want to filter out "please help me set up ___" questions,
>    that's what a mail filter is for after all. Chris Browne presented on
>    internet data filtering back in Oct. 97, perhaps it would be a good
>    topic for revisitation, for those who don't know how and want to learn.

See <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/ifmail.html> for the portion that
is directly related to filtering of mail.  There are samples of the
config files for MH and Procmail, which are likely the two most commonly
used filters.

Note that Ifile, the other software mentioned in the talk, has recently
reached "version 1.0," and is referenced on that web page.
--
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