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Re: How to NOT filter a message

1998-01-06 16:23:45
John Spence asked,

| I decided to follow the advice on using
|   1. The Resent-Sender: field for some lists
|   2. The Sender: field for some lists
|   3. nothing on 1 list that is manually administered :-(

Doesn't that manually-administered list rewrite the From_ line at least?
That's virtually indispensable.

| Why would someone not use a lock file?  I have all of my definitions using
| :0:

Three major reasons for not using a local lockfile:

1. the recipe saves to a directory rather than to a plain folder; or
2. the recipe's action does not modify any files (it opens a brace nest,
   for example, or it does filtering or variable capture, or it dumps
   the message to /dev/null), so it is safe for it to operate on two or
   more messages at the same time; or
3. a global or regional lockfile is in effect at that point.

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