Quoting Steve Litt ([email protected]): > Please keep in mind that replies to a troll aren't what most people are > here to see. Keep in mind also that when trolls are ignored, they tend > to go elsewhere.
Useful procmail recipe follows, for catching and processing posts from a roster of trolls and any first-level response to them, except if said mail has To: or Cc: addressed to you specifically: # noise filter MY_ADDR="[email protected]|[email protected]" TROLL_ADDR="[email protected]|[email protected]|[email protected]" TROLL_NAMES="John Troll|Kathy McTroll" :0 # for each email not directly addressed to me *$ !^(To|Cc):.*\<($MY_ADDR)\> { :0 # if the mail is from a troll -> byte recycler *$ ^From:.*\<($TROLL_ADDR)\> /dev/null :0 B # if the mail is a direct reply to a troll -> same *$ ^^(.*\<)?($TROLL_NAMES)\> /dev/null } (To put matched mail somewhere else, substitute a different destination in place of the above's bit bucket.) Plaudits for this elegant solution should go to Tobia Conforto <[email protected]>, who provided it to the subscribers of OSI's license-discuss mailing list on 3 September 2007. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
