On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Nancy McGough wrote:
...was when I posted the first incarnation of the Filtering Mail
FAQ to comp.mail.elm -- you can check it out here:
<http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=31s4tc$a38(_at_)nwfocus(_dot_)wa(_dot_)com>
At that point it was about the Elm filter program but it evolved
to cover procmail and eventually became the Procmail Quick Start!
Thank you to everyone who's been involved in all this for all
these years.
Those were the days!
Nancy
As another little tidbit, from
http://www.procmail.org/procmail.HISTORY.html, weighted scoring on
conditions celebrated its 10'th Birthday on June 14, which allowed
Baysian statistics to be used in scoring conditionals; and the
procmail program will celebrate its 14'th Birthday on December 7'th,
(at least that's when 1.0 was released.)
Sendmail and Bind are often quoted as being the most used Open Source
programs on the Internet-but those Sendmail/DNS programs push a lot of
instances of procmail, too.
John
BTW, the HISTORY file has very few bug fixes-most of it involves
enhancements. Quite a tribute to the original coding done by BuGless,
(AKA Stephen van den Berg.)
--
John Conover, conover(_at_)rahul(_dot_)net, http://www.johncon.com/
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