Author: "Matthew G. Saroff" <msaroff(_at_)pca(_dot_)net>
Original-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 06:36:19 -0500 (CDT)
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I then posted to procmail, and EVERYONE (Admittedly only 3-4
people) stated definitively that spam had killed smartlist, and that I
should post to both. My apologies for taking their advice.
As someone who receives about 400 emails a day, I apologize personally for
not having seen your message. However, it seems clear that there are more
than 3-4 folk on the procmail list who see SmartList questions as off-topic.
Since there have been some 80 posts to the smartlist group in the last 2
weeks, I'd say it is far from dead. Perhaps there are not as many experts
there as one would like
Author: Ken Hooper <bighouse(_at_)type2(_dot_)com>
Original-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 03:01:30 -0600
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I don't quite know why this _jihad_,
Oh puleeese
but Smartlist is a brilliant collection of procmail scripts,
scripts so complicated that it requires a procmail devotee to
understand them.
``Hrm, I have a question about a UNIX shell script, so I should post it to
comp.unix.question, but because it is a shell script, I should also post it
to comp.unix.shells and what's the difference between that and
comp.unix.shell? I don't know, I'll post there too, and
comp.unix.questions, and comp.unix.misc''
If I am trying to figure out or modify one of
those scripts, it is quite sensible and not inappropriate to ask
about it on the procmail list.
Except that how many folks on the procmail list have ever seen the Smartlist
program? Do they know what the particular set of recipes does, and how it
fits together with the other recipes?
And if they know all this, why are they not willing to help on the smartlist
list, and if they are not willing to help there why would they want to help
on the procmail list?
TjL