The Friday 2003-10-31 at 22:04 -0600, Richard wrote:
Carlos, I see you giving aid to many who seem a bit unappreciative but none more so than this Old Sarge guy.
I don't mind lack of appreciation, now and then; that's not my motivation. But what he said felt like insult, so I got a bit into flames ;-)
And that brings me to hijack this thread and ask for advice on creating a /dev/null for such people. I'm using Kmail and just sending them to the trash is to kind.
For deletion, I would use procmail, as Patrick said. I don't use kmail much, so I'm unsure, but I think it has powerful filters that could be used for that. For the list mail, I'm using Pine, and I want to investigate the "scoring" method it has. The idea would be to mark those emails as "to be ignored" somehow. There is an old reader, golded, used for Fidonet, but also for inet email, that can mark messages as coming from a "twit", and they are shown blank. That would be preferable than deletion, which is like applying censorship: I'm prejudiced against that. If a "twit" writes I do not want to remove "evidences". -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson