On Wed, 3 Apr 96 08:51:39 EST, this dropped into my unsubscribe~ folder:
unsubscribe
Third time over in two or three days. You'd think it was an April
Fool's joke, but apparently not.
(David: To get off the list, send your request to procmail-request,
not procmail. This is a standard convention for mailing lists.)
Here's the magic snippet from my .procmailrc -- maybe this list should
use it too? :-)
Unflattering comments trimmed -- mostly they were about people who
make spelling errors, but i geuss nobodys prfect ;^)
# Note: This is a very old Procmail with slightly painful syntax
:2:
<2000
^Subject: ((un)?sub?scribe|(sign|take( me | )?off)|cancel sub)
unsubscribe~
:2BD: # D == case sensitive, B == scan message body
<2000
^(UNSUB?SCR?IBE|SIGN ?OFF)
unsubscribe~
:2B:
<1600
^ *unsub?scr?ibe
unsubscribe~
# No subject line
:3HB: # H == scan header (for no Subject); B == scan message body
<2000
!^Subject: .*
(unsu(b?scr?ibe)?|sign ?off)
unsubscribe~
More ideas for this recipe would be most welcome. In particular, I'm
not very happy about the byte counts, but they act as sort of a safety
measure.
There's a bit of overlap in the recipes, I notice now. They've
developed over several months, and I've never really gotten down to
optimizing them.
On the whole, I have found this to work fairly well, so far. And I'm
glad I've been keeping the incoming ones -- for me, it's enough to
know I'm in control of the situation. Now, reading unsub messages can
even be fun! (Because I can choose for myself when to read them. And
they're not eating any of my precious disk quota.)
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