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Re: spamcake collection
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lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date: 
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:37:47 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Todd Lehman writes:
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.  :)

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.

And yes, there was a spampuck sans spamcake. Also, not all of the directives
start with "when replying" either. I haven't counted, but I managed to slurp
dozens so far from a Lugnet search. I didn't expect to have a ready-for-
primetime list with 24 hours anyway.

BTW, thanks for the search parameters! I'll use those in the future too (if
they still apply then).

-Tom McD.
when replying, spamcake is combustible; I don't advise birthday candles.



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  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". (...) (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
 
(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 17-Jul-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun, lugnet.off-topic.pun, lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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