Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 15:06:40 +0100 (MET)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Aaron M Clemmer <aclemmer AT juno DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: I need to talk to a guy
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On Thu, 31 Oct 1996, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>
>On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Aaron M Clemmer wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:11:23 +0000 "bartosz"
>> <bartosz AT host1 DOT bielbit DOT bielsko DOT pl> writes:
>> >What do you think about filling up  swebber AT nether DOT net e-mail box.
>> >Let each send him a letter.
>> 	No kidding... I hate it when newsgroups get spammed with ads, but
>> I really hate it when a mailing list, of all things, does.
>
>A mail reflector software runs on the DJ Delorie's server, which
>automatically reflects all traffic from comp.os.msdos.djgpp to the
>mailing list and vice versa.  Hence everything which goes to the
>group is also reflected to the list. 
Maybe a simple preprocessing script should be set up to trash the obviously
unwanted messages from being passed along? I mean there is a certain pattern
in all these messages that makes it possible to rule them out - maybe procmail
would help?

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