From: i812 AT iname DOT com
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Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 19:40:09 -0400 (EDT)
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To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: quoting and listening
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Dave's right, Jim. I, too, prefer contextual bits of quoting interspersed with new comments. I've just been playing with procmail in Linux, and you could easily set it up to rewrite your messages as they arrive. You can even have it save raw copies in case something goes wrong, like some fool using a bizarre quote string. :)

Even if you don't run Linux yourself, you might be able to use procmail if you get your mail from an ISP which gives you shell access. In the old days (2-3 years ago! :) most did, but I think few do now.

There are some free ISP's with shell access! In the Denver/Boulder area (Colorado USA) there's nyx.net, which will give free shell accounts to anyone. If your present mail account does not offer shell access, get a nyx account. From there you can retrieve your mail from anywhere using fetchmail, and process it as you like. Then you get your mail from nyx (but you still use your existing address.)

procmail is just like having a personal secretary in your computer. Combined with a good mail client (I use mutt: http://www.mutt.org/) you can really increase your ability to handle incoming mail.

Note I do not have a nyx account. I am just assuming that it can do what most Unix systems can do. You can telnet to nyx.net or go to their Web pages (www.nyx.net, I believe).

I hope this is helpful for you. If you need more information on procmail, http://www.procmail.org/ is a good start (follow the link to Nancy McGough's Quick Start page.)

Regards,
    Rob McGee
    St. Joseph, Tennessee, USA

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 05:13:06PM -0400, Dave Tweed wrote:
> I'm all for the consideration of handicapped people, but you're asking
> the majority of the community to cater to the needs of the minority,
> when the problem could easily and should be addressed at your end,
> with some simple changes to your reader software, or by creating a
> filter between your mail reader and your speech software. That's the
> magic of computers: they're *programmable*.


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