Hi All, Every once in awhile, something really great comes along that just perfectly fits the bill.
That was the case this morning with the 'mboxfull' script authored by Dave Regan at Armored Penguin. A little background: I sent an email recently asking if anyone had a script that would monitor a user's Inbox and warn them if it were getting too full. I had actually included a script that may be modified to suit my needs and offered a $25.00 bounty for the first one to produce a "production quality" product. The next day, Dave sent an email that quoted as follows: "There are a number of ugly things about the program you found such that it will be easier to start fresh rather than modify it..." Shocking for some, an inspiration for others; note what Doug McIlroy, the inventor of Unix pipes and one of the founders of the Unix tradition's words: "Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features." Dave was right. Dave's mbox monitoring program was nothing short of spectacular. The script was well thought out, cleanly documented, and indented perfectly. You'll see what I mean when you click through to his script here: http://www.armoredpenguin.com/mboxfull/ In the first sentence of Dave's script site he writes, "mboxfull is a trivial little program, without any runtime, to send email to users whose email box is nearly full." If only he could see how happy his script has made my client! Oh, and the booty? Dave had this to say: "If you send me a check, I'll only spend it. Instead, send it to Pamela Jones at Groklaw." A man of great character. Thank you, Dave. Best, -- -------------------------------------------------------------- | Cooper Stevenson | Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | General Computer | Ph: 541.924.9434 | | "Open For Business" | Www: http://www.gencom.us | -------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
