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Subject:	Re: spamcake collection
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Sat, 17 Jul 1999 00:31:53 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Robert Munafo writes: > That algorithm won't find the following [...] that didn't have "when > replying". You could special case the third week of April and use the > "when replying" test for everything since then. Sounds like quite a challenging problem in its extreme... :) Since there are only about 350 of 'em, and editing will probably be necessary on most of 'em anyway, I'll bet it's quicker just to pop the whole thing into an editor and delete stuff by hand. If you could do one every 10 seconds, then you'd have it done in an hour, which is certainly less time that it would take to write a program to do same correctly in all cases. :) --Todd

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		Re: spamcake collection
(...) That's what I was planning on doing. I can also delete lousier or message- content-reliant ones at the same time, as the latter don't stand by themselves for use in any old message. But I wasn't about to discourage anyone if they could do it. (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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		Re: spamcake collection
That algorithm won't find the following (because "spamcake" appears two lines later not one line later): (URL) the following (because "spamcake" appears in the rare alternate form "spampucks"): (URL) like to also point out that you aren't matching (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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