[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-28 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mark Leisher wrote: Oops. I missed a spot. Isn't this mistake implying that you're still in favor of 'sed' over 'perl' for this kind of simple operation :-) ? It seems to me a bit ironic that those who must be aware of all sorts of sed/awk wizadry try to do everything

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-28 Thread Jungshik Shin
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote: Mark Leisher wrote: Those whom can filter their mail also can alter the subject line easily with, for example, small perl script. % perl -ne 's/\[unicode\]// if (/^Subject:/);' messagefile I'd really need a thing like that but,

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-28 Thread Yaap Pranger
At 11:58 +0200 2001.03.27, Michael Everson wrote: At 18:04 +0200 2001-03-26, Marco Cimarosti wrote: I cannot find a message by typing the first few letters of the subject (because they are always... guess what) Yes, this is the worst "feature" of this little experiment of Sarasvati's. I use

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-27 Thread Michael Everson
At 18:04 +0200 2001-03-26, Marco Cimarosti wrote: I cannot find a message by typing the first few letters of the subject (because they are always... guess what) Yes, this is the worst "feature" of this little experiment of Sarasvati's. I use Eudora, and used to make use of this

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-26 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Mark Leisher wrote: Those whom can filter their mail also can alter the subject line easily with, for example, small perl script. Sean Since this is so easy, could you send me one? % perl -ne 's/\[unicode\]// if (/^Subject:/);' messagefile I'd really need a thing like that but,

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-26 Thread Mark Leisher
Marco I'd really need a thing like that but, unfortunately, I don't sit Marco in front of a powerful Linux box with Perl and all the rest. Marco Does anyone have a solution for MS Outlook under Windows NT? Indeed. The inability to do simple, obvious things in these programs is

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-23 Thread Sean O Seaghdha
Ar 23 Mar 2001, ag 1:44 scrobh Sarasvati fn bhar "Re: Moving mail lists": At this moment, there are 691 addresses subscribed to the Unicode mail list. At least 24 of those entities are points of further fan-out to local lists elsewhere. If you can gather a list of at least 346 current

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-23 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Sean O Seaghdha wrote: I'll take the above private response as a request for everyone opposed to or in favour of this piece of nonsense to e-mail Sarasvati [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your opinion. I trust Sarasvati will keep us apprised of the tally, the proportion of

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-23 Thread Sean O Seaghdha
Ar 21 Mar 2001, ag 11:58 scrobh [EMAIL PROTECTED] fn bhar "[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists": Those whom can filter their mail also can alter the subject line easily with, for example, small perl script. Since this is so easy, could you s

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Leisher
Those whom can filter their mail also can alter the subject line easily with, for example, small perl script. Sean Since this is so easy, could you send me one? % perl -ne 's/\[unicode\]// if (/^Subject:/);' messagefile

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-23 Thread Mark Leisher
Oops. I missed a spot. % perl -ne 's/\[unicode\]// if (/^Subject:/); print;' messagefile - Mark Leisher Times are bad. Children no longer obey Computing Research Labtheir parents, and

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Asmus Freytag
At 03:38 AM 3/22/01 +, Christopher John Fynn wrote: But you can also filter mails based on the To: header "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" - every mail client I've seen that supports filtering lets you filter based on that header. Except if the message is a cc:... Actually of more interest to me

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Marion Gunn
Arsa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You are right, this may not be very useful for whom wish to filter their mail, but we better keep it in mind that this may be very useful for whom do not/can not filter their mail. Those whom can filter their mail also can alter the subject line easily with, for

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Sam Chapman
the original message has a responding address at the bottom of the msg [EMAIL PROTECTED] is this one on the list? -Original Message- From: John Wilcock [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 22 March 2001 13:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [unicode] Re: Moving mail lists On 22 Mar

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread J%ORG KNAPPEN
I don't like the [unicode] prefix to all subject lines, because it eats up too much of the valuable human readble subject line space. I could live with it better, if it can be shortened to something like [uc], but the best for me is dropping it at all. And of course, there MUST NOT be any "Re:

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Sean O Seaghdha
Ar 21 Mar 2001, ag 23:06 scrobh Asmus Freytag fn bhar "[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists": X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Actually of more interest to me is the ability *not* to filter certain mail lists until *after* I have read them in chronologica

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Sean O Seaghdha
Please, please, please, can we not use this stupid [unicode] addition to the subject line. I agree with all the points that have been made against it so far. It's redundant, it wastes space and makes it harder to visually find the message you want in a list. Because this is such a

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Sean O Seaghdha wrote: Please, please, please, can we not use this stupid [unicode] addition to the subject line. I agree with all the points that have been made against it so far. It's redundant, it wastes space and makes it harder to visually find the message

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-22 Thread Ayers, Mike
From: Roozbeh Pournader [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Sean O Seaghdha wrote: Please, please, please, can we not use this stupid [unicode] addition to the subject line. I agree with all the points that have been made against it so far. It's redundant, it

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-21 Thread Marco Cimarosti
Personally, I don't like very much the new policy of adding the label "[unicode]" in front of message subjects, for two reasons: 1) It is the same prefix used by the list [EMAIL PROTECTED], to which I subscribed for receiving daily digests of the Unicode List's message. What I do is to

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-21 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Unicode subscribers: This week Parvati and I will be moving the Unicode mail list to a new server with new mail software. I hope the move goes smoothly, but as you know the best laid plans of mice and machines cough and sputter in the

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-21 Thread Mike Lischke
Hello Florian, Yahoo Groups has ads by default (unless you pay a monthly fee for list hosting), and some people do not trust the privacy policy of such organizations. Yes, I know. I'm subscribed to 9 YG mailing lists and manage another 4 on my own. It is a piece of cake and there is a

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-21 Thread Mike Lischke
I see that the list software now appends [unicode] to all subject lines. This is very annoying, and not very useful, since those who wish to filter their mail and put posts from this list in a folder of its own etc. etc. can now do so by using other headers, such as "X-list: unicode" .

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-21 Thread Mike Lischke
Hi Christopher, To my mind the Unicode web ftp servers mean that a separate file area just for this mailing list would be pretty well redundant - and I suspect most people subscribed to this list have much better things to do than to participate in chat rooms and polls (and I can't see

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-21 Thread Gaute B Strokkenes
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:53 PM 3/21/01 +0100, you wrote: I see that the list software now appends [unicode] to all subject lines. This is very annoying, and not very useful, since those who wish to filter their mail and put posts from this list in a folder of its

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-21 Thread Christopher John Fynn
Asmus Freytag wrote: At 05:53 PM 3/21/01 +0100, you wrote: I see that the list software now appends [unicode] to all subject lines. This is very annoying, and not very useful, since those who wish to filter their mail and put posts from this list in a folder of its own etc. etc. can now

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-20 Thread Florian Weimer
"Mike Lischke" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just out of curiosity, why do you use an own mailing list server if you can use a free one (Yahoo Groups)? Yahoo Groups has ads by default (unless you pay a monthly fee for list hosting), and some people do not trust the privacy policy of such

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-20 Thread Florian Weimer
Sarasvati [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Unicode subscribers: This week Parvati and I will be moving the Unicode mail list to a new server with new mail software. I'm sorry but you made a SEVERE configuration error: the envelope from address of outgoing messages points back to the list

[unicode] Re: Moving mail lists

2001-03-20 Thread Christopher John Fynn
Mike Lischke wrote Dear Sarasvati, ... Just out of curiosity, why do you use an own mailing list server if you can use a free one (Yahoo Groups)? The Unicode list is mirrored there anyway, so why not make the "backup list" being the actual list. You will get not only the list, but