Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/03/03/13:22:10
Igor,
I think I understood your meaning, and I'm not in favor of placing any
blame on the posters in this matter. As I mentioned in my earlier reply
to David Sheridan, I assumed from the beginning that he had no control
over that disclaimer.
I was really curious if Chris has a way of detecting and filtering out
the disclaimer text itself, leaving the message content intact, which
is what his single-sentence posting seemed to suggest he was *so*
tempted to do.
Randall Schulz
"Righteous indignation makes the world go 'round.
And 'round and 'round, right down the drain."
At 10:13 2003-03-03, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Umm, Randall, I think you've missed the point of my post. I claimed that
>people should not be blamed for something they have no control over, and
>suggested a means of giving them the control. It *must* require
>cooperation from the sender. Should they choose to ignore this control,
>they'll deserve every ounce of abuse they get. Please do not deprive the
>members of this list from the opportunity to be rightfully mean! ;-)
>
>Perhaps when (and if) this is implemented, it could be added to the FAQ,
>so people won't be able to (validly) complain that this is not documented
>anywhere. Then, along with the abuse, we could point them to the FAQ. :-)
> Igor
>
>On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>
> > Chris,
> >
> > Clearly this is now an open topic, so...
> >
> > Do you have a good way to do this? Igor's suggestion seems sound and
> > easily implementable, but short of some kind of cooperation from the
> > sender (in the form of a tag of some sort that marks the end of the
> > real content of their posting), it seems like a pretty difficult problem.
> >
> > Do you have some kind of statistical text processing software you can
> > easily invoke to do this?
> >
> > Randall Schulz
> >
> >
> > At 07:22 2003-03-03, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > >I am *so* tempted to add a filter to strip this crap out of email
> sent here.
> > >
> > >cgf
> > >
> > >On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 09:05:27AM -0000, Sheridan, David wrote:
> > > >PLEASE READ: The information contained in this email is confidential...
--
Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html
Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
- Raw text -