On Sunday 24 July 2005 16:32, M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 15:12:39 PM +0100, CPHennessy
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > I'm not sure what exact solution you were proposing but if it is an
> > automatic email to unsubscribed users, then yes, I do that
> > already.
>
> No, it's something else, which is complementary to what you are
> already doing:
>
> 1) Unsubscribed user posts to list
> 2) procmail recognizes that message as coming from unsubscribed user,
> and memorizes subject and original unsubscribed sender
> 3) EVERYBODY STOPS THIS CRAP OF REPOSTING EVERYTHING TO EVERYBODY AND
> HIS THIRD COUSIN, BECAUSE:
> 4) if they have nothing to add, they just sit down, no posting
> anywhere
> 5) if they have something to say, ONLY REPLY TO LIST AS IT SHOULD BE,
> SINCE:
> 6) the same procmail at 2) will recognize when THE LIST receives an
> answer to "thread-started-by-unsubscribed-guy" and
> 7) the same procmail will send to $UNSUBSCRIBED-GUY only a notification
> that somebody answered, please check the archives to read it.
> 8) even better: procmail can automatically forward an extra copy of
> that answer:
> ONLY TO $UNSUBSCRIBED-GUY
> WITH Reply address set to [email protected]
> ONLY for the first N replies if that makes you feel
> better
>
> Practically speaking, all this would be accomplished by setting up one
> extra procmail recipe, just once, only on one (yours) computer, without
> wasting one second with collabnet. Period.
>
> Now please somebody explain me what are the concrete, technical
> obstacles to this.
Actually finding the time and energy to do this. If someone can provide me
with the relevant procmail solution, then I'll trial it for a while, but I am
not promising anything beyond trialing for now :)
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