From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 10 08:29:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8755D16A4CE for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:29:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from post5.inre.asu.edu (post5.inre.asu.edu [129.219.110.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E1143D39 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:29:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from David.Bear@asu.edu) Received: from conversion.post5.inre.asu.edu by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) id <0HUD00D01CE996@asu.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:27:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from smtp.asu.edu (smtp.asu.edu [129.219.110.107]) by asu.edu (PMDF V6.1-1X6 #30769) with ESMTP id <0HUD00C4RCE98G@asu.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:27:45 -0700 (MST) Received: from moroni.pp.asu.edu (moroni.pp.asu.edu [129.219.120.183]) (8.12.10/8.12.10/asu_smtp_relay,nullclient,tcp_wrapped) with ESMTP id i2AGRiQw015380 for ; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:27:44 -0700 (MST) Received: by moroni.pp.asu.edu (Postfix, from userid 500) id 8E642993; Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:27:44 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 09:27:44 -0700 From: David Bear To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <20040310162744.GA2081@asu.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: formail recipe X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: David.Bear@asu.edu List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 16:29:50 -0000 Hope I'm not imposing too much on this group.. but since this group has a collection of the best, brightest, and generous.. I wonder if someone might have a formail recipe that would randomly select N messages from a mailbox of M messages? I have a spam corpus thats well over 10000 and need to trim it down. -- David Bear phone: 480-965-8257 fax: 480-965-9189 College of Public Programs/ASU Wilson Hall 232 Tempe, AZ 85287-0803 "Beware the IP portfolio, everyone will be suspect of trespassing"