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  Re: My pun of the Weak...
 
In lugnet.off-topic.pun, Jeff Stembel openly admits to writing: (...) You must have appundecitis! (...) <whap> Well, with us you know you don't have to submit a pun for that! :-) <whap><shlubble>(which is the sound of a spamlog hitting a maniac's (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: My pun of the Weak...
 
(...) Who said anything about a) "virtual" as opposed to real, and 2) "wiffle" as opposed to C405 double-wall Aluminum;-) [1] As far as the spamlog goes, I'll let you know after my wife throws another one on the fire and tells me something she's (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  My pun of the Weak...
 
Here is my pun of the Weak (willed)! With apologies to J.R.R. Tolkein, of course. Anyways, on with the Punning! "Onion ring to rule them all; onion ring to find them. Onion ring to keep them all, and in the darkness fry them!" Jeff P.S. Sorry (...) (27 years ago, 21-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
The almighty Todd tolde us: (...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
(...) True -- I knowingly didn't take that into consideration. Yet. This should be fairly easy to fix -- just buffer all text after the signature /\bTom McD\b/ but before a ( blank line or a quoted line or a header line ) and grep that for "spam". (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  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. (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
<378FBF59.7B8E83D0@io.com> <FEznMB.K5z@lugnet.com> <FEzo55.KyI@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) For the sample set we have now. But what if EVERYONE starts doing the 'cake thing. This is (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
(...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  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 (...) (27 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
(...) <FEzKnJ.F9n@lugnet.com> (...) What about a footnote? I've used those too. Usually they are formatted, "(1) foo blah glorp". (...) download (...) I'm (...) Forget my pandering. Doesn't have to be free. (...) That would work. (...) I don't do (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
<FEzILx.C5I@lugnet.com> <378FB99F.F46CAB87@io.com> <FEzKnJ.F9n@lugnet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit (...) Hardly any at all with the latest incantation. (1) (...) This is basically my strategy. I'm (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
(...) Writing (...) part (...) and (...) <snipped code> How much? too much to throw out manually? Hmm (with an empty stare). Consider that spamcake directives never have parentheses surrounding them (but I've put some parenthetical lines after my (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
(...) If Perl is the code of refreshment, swig on! :-, I'm not sure this will get all of them. It does introduce some non-sig text. BREAKAGE: while( $lineIn = <STDIN> ) { if( $lineIn =~ m/\bTom McD\b/ ) { while( $msgIn = <STDIN> ) { if( $msgIn =~ (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: spamcake collection
 
(...) of (...) You'll need a swig while doing it ;-) (...) Thanks! My mailbox is too full of junk to hold it so an ftp worked out great. (...) -Tom McD. when replying, stay away from the *pure* spamcake stuff... (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  spamcake collection
 
(...) Here's the file -- ftp://ftp.lugnet.com...g/spamcake (Note: This isn't necessarily only spamcake stuff -- it's anything that matched "^From:.*Tom McDonald", which may be a slight superset of pure spamcake stuff.) --Todd (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Uber-Galic question
 
(...) Todd, Can you fling a copy my way as well? I'll take a swig at it... Cheers, - jsproat (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Uber-Galic question
 
(...) Please! That would be great! I've already started, just in case you happen to look at an activity log and utter, "Holy spamcake!" (or the equivalent :-) -Tom McD. (who's patiently awaiting a URL) when replying, note that this spamcake (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Uber-Galic question
 
(...) Tom/Mark... I've got a 1.3 MB file here of all Tom's postings... Writing a harvester to parse all the sentences and figure out exactly what's part of Tom's sig and what's an official spamcake thingy is the tricky bit -- and I'll let you do (...) (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Uber-Galic question
 
(...) If you put in the text "+spamcake +tom +mcdonald" instead of "spamcake" it'll reduce the set of things returned somewhat (in this case 7, I think :) --Todd (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)
 
  Re: Uber-Galic question
 
(...) "You don't have a Spam-a-gram. You're that Land Shark!" "Candygram!" -John (27 years ago, 16-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun)

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