Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:08:08 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do sorted messages exist? Message-ID: <20030228000808.GB453@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <OF54B6D190.4EF70FD5-ON88256CDA.00814A5C@dot.ca.gov> References: <OF54B6D190.4EF70FD5-ON88256CDA.00814A5C@dot.ca.gov>
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:43:10PM -0800, Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov wrote: i<snip> > Is there any version of freebsd-questions in which > the traffic is sorted by topic, and in which the recipient can pull onto > his screen only those messages on the topic of interest? You could write a procmail recipe, but I don;t know how succesful it would be. Filtering on Subject would be marred by several things: - Some people don't give a subject - Some people give a useless subject like "Question" or "Help" - Some people tag messages to threads that are on a completely different topic from the preceding messages in the thread. Filtering on content would also come with hazhards, because of the threaded nature of the discussions it would be one hell of a job to collect the whole thread, as things get snipped, or lose things in your search criteria. In short, I would say you can either ask for digests, or do a search on the web archives. I may be wrong of course, but I do not see how it could be done. Maybe a KWIC index ? Mmmm..something to work on during the long winter nights. It might be possible for you to filter out things you definitely do *not* want to see, that may be better than filtering on things you do want to see. Mmmm... -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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