jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard) (10/10/86)
Article: 10:29 Well, I'm sure most of you have seen my latest attempt at automation in the last 27 or so articles. I had such a back-log of articles after my vacation that I didn't have the heart to go through and edit each one manually (which is what I've been doing). I wroke some sed scripts that went through cheerfully munging and ripping the articles headers into what appeared to be acceptable shape. Almost. It seems that the articles I looked at were fine, but some had screwy headers or text addressed to me personally. These, of course, were the ones I didn't look at until they'd already been posted (this doesn't mean that I have stopped checking for non-gun related articles, I still skim through for that stuff). What we can all do to make my life easier is to adopt the following standard header: Subject: blah blah (always *always* include the subject!) Keywords: (optional) In-Reply-To: (optional) Anything else will be munged by the sed scripts. If you wish to include comments to me personally, do it this way: *------------------------------------* blah blah blah blah. blah. *------------------------------------* I will have the sed scripts look for matching sets of *--...--* lines and delete them and *everything* in the middle. I picked *---* because it seems to be relatively unique. Thank you. Jordan.