From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 16: 8:23 2003 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 9384637B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:08:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C33643FA3 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 16:08:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18oY4Z-0008KI-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 00:08:19 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 3853EC6D4 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:08:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id 8B397C64E for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:08:08 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 544B7225C2; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:08:08 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:08:08 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Do sorted messages exist? Message-ID: <20030228000808.GB453@raggedclown.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 03:43:10PM -0800, Lee_Shackelford@dot.ca.gov wrote: i > 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