At 10:07 2003-07-07 -0700, Tyler Creelan did say:
I put together an online mail filtering workshop for students here
and was hoping get some expert feedback:
http://cs.oregonstate.edu/~creelan/procmail.html
UHM, I note that you have a file in there:
procmail-kit/examples/spewhost.txt
which is a complete saved email message (headers and all) of one of my
posts to this list. Since that material is POSTED online at my website
(the URLs are right within that message), it would be preferrable to link
it there (and perhaps, link to the thread in the list archives, to catch
any followup to the post which may have been made).
While I'm flattered that some of my contributions made their way into your
reference, the fact that one is included as a raw email message is a bit
unnerving, as is that the only reason I know the material is there is
because I bothered to follow the link posted to the world, to check out
what was offered there.
There are a few other messages - listmatch.rc for instance, which are also
list posts (with SOME headers), and obviously not rcfiles as-is, although
named as an .rc, which you should consider changing accordingly.
procdiag.sh should _NOT_ be included in the archive, as it is occasionally
updated, and should be referenced by URL instead. Likewise,
extra/acronyms.txt and extra/dot-forward.txt represent material from my site.
I'm NOT accusing you of theft - all the material IS attributed, but by
extracting these resources from their respective sites you deprive their
respective authors of the ability to edit their original material. It also
often sets us up to fielding questions when someone sees what is
(potentially) and out of date copy of the material located somewhere the
author didn't put it (a problem compounded by the fact that the authors may
not even have been made aware of the republication of their material in the
first place). If it's an online workshop, there should certainly be no
significant technical issues with providing links to original source
material where it is published.
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Sean B. Straw / Professional Software Engineering
Procmail disclaimer: <http://www.professional.org/procmail/disclaimer.html>
Please DO NOT carbon me on list replies. I'll get my copy from the list.
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