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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
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> Tom McDonald wrote:
> > In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeremy H. Sproat writes:
> > > I'm not sure this will get all of them. It does introduce some non-sig
> > > text.
> > How much? too much to throw out manually?
>
> Hardly any at all with the latest incantation. (1)
>
> > Hmm (with an empty stare). Consider that spamcake directives never have
> > parentheses surrounding them (but I've put some parenthetical lines after my
> > name a few times), and my name always starts with a hyphen first as in, -Tom
> > McD., which would make a good starting point to look for the spamcake.
>
> This is basically my strategy. I'm assuming that the text "Tom McD" will
> appear as two distinct words only in your sig block; exceptions should be
> few and far between. Note that this will only work with messages authored
> by Tom McDonald as input -- If you included this message in the input,
> you'll get some bogus output because of this silly text:
>
> Tom McD
> I'm not a spamcake sig!
>
> My rules for filtering spamcake are roughly:
>
> If it's after a line which contains "Tom McD" as two distinct words,
> and the next line isn't a quoted line but does contain "spamcake",
> remember that line and,
> append following lines until the signature is termindated by one of:
> a blank line
> a quoted line
> a header line
> upon line termination, add line to clump of saved lines
>
> When we're done, print out the clump of saved lines
What about a footnote? I've used those too. Usually they are formatted, "(1)
foo blah glorp".
> > Also that I don't know/can't run Perl, unless there's some way I can • download
> > a free editor/environment somewhere, so I can't do it myself unless I write
> > some other code in Borland ObjectPal (which I don't like all that much, and
> > which no one else here seems to know; perhaps coincidentally :-). I guess • I'm
> > willing to learn Perl though, especially since it seems to be web-friendly.
Forget my pandering. Doesn't have to be free.
> I say learn Perl. But if you want, I can also toss you my spamcake.out
> file...
That would work.
> 1. Leter incantations are available only on lugnet.off-topic.geek
I don't do incantations anymore. The last time I did one, I botched it and I
ended up folding in upon myself until I disappeared.
It took me weeks to get out of that...
-Tom McD.
Darth Roscoe Lives.
when replying, try the latest fitness rage: Tai-Spamcake.
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