Re: Monitoring the monitors [Was: Gilmore and Sandfart suck big dicks]

[ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)]

Prof. aga wrote:
> 
> On 19 Jan 1997, Bryan Reece wrote:
> >    it is easy undex unix, what you have to do is store arriving article
> >    in separate directories by message ID and run diff (with certain
> >    corrections) on these two directories.
> > 
> >    diff will print you the files that are in one dir and not in another.
> > 
> >    take an extraction, and delete too new articles (so that propagation
> >    does not screw you up).
> > 
> >    thats it
> > 
> > If you just want the differences and aren't too concerned with
> > timeliness, I'm planning on running a cypherpunks-rejects list containing all
> > the messages that went out the unedited list but didn't show up on the
> > moderated one within x hours (not sure what x should be yet).
> > 
> 
> Then you must use two separate addresses to do that right.
> And you may want them to both be UNIX or at least the same OS
> at each location, so you can write some batch programs to
> save you the manual wwork.
> 

No, one address is enough. You can look at a Unix tool called procmail,
which allows filtering of incoming messages. For example, you could
completely insulate yourself from, say, follower of clawed albino.

	- Igor.