hanifl@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au (Greyham Stoney) (03/12/91)
Is anyone interested in writing a perl script that would be able to identify non-source postings in alt.sources, and send the poster a friendly message reminding them that it's only for source postings? I came up with a short script that identified most things by looking for simple keywords (like '/*', dot commands, #!, etc etc), but I've since left that company. Most people that got a friendly form letter were appreciative and in Perl it's easy to make the letter look personal by stripping their first name from the From: field, etc. It would be good if someone could do this to cut down on the alt.sources junk. Greyham.
tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) (03/12/91)
From the keyboard of hanifl@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au (Greyham Stoney): :Is anyone interested in writing a perl script that would be able to identify :non-source postings in alt.sources, and send the poster a friendly message :reminding them that it's only for source postings? : :It would be good if someone could do this to cut down on the alt.sources :junk. I think it would be hard to do this automatically. And maybe you don't want to... I tried to address the issue with a relatively nice letter that gets spawned by a keystroke macro in rn, but while I got about 9 nice answers and only one nasty one for my efforts, this isn't going over very well in alt.sources.d. Go see what I mean. --tom