Bob Estes wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
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From: Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:09:57 +0100
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Subject: Terrance
mike scott wrote:
On 1 Aug 2008 at 12:17, Jason Hunter wrote:
....
The "terrance" account was designed to silently listen to the
mailing list in order to produce an archive record for
markmail.org. The account was not designed to send email. The
only time it is allowed to send email is to (a) confirm its
subscription and (b) confirm its unsubscription.
In which case I'd suggest your coding philosophy is wrong. There is
/zero/ reason to code for such rare events - code which is hardly
testable, and best omitted, leaving [un]subscription to be done
manually. Then it can't possibly go wrong.... a "listener" should be
exactly that, IMO.
All this makes me feel glad I use gmane newsgroup access ;-)
Al
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To Alan Lord: please would you explain how using gmane newsgroup
access helps in this context?
I use Thunderbird to read gmane news and it doesn't run filters on
news messages so I can't avoid the terrance stuff. Thunderbird also
doesn't let you delete news messages that you didn't send so the
terrance stuff hangs around for days till Thunderbird removes it from
your folder due to its age. What am I missing, please?
I also use Tbird to read gmane news. I have Tbird set to remove all
read items. When there is a block I don't want to read, I select it and
mark it as read. When I move to another box (Inbox, Drafts, etc.) all
messages marked "read" are gone.
Harold, my use is similar to Bob's. I just find it less "intrusive" to
have mailing list traffic *not* filling up my mail boxes. News is a
separate part of TB for me and I deal with it differently.
Email is more direct and - this is my personal opinion of course -
requires me to respond in a more immediate manner. News I look at when I
feel like it and respond when I feel like it.
I saw the hundreds of Terrance of messages, ignored them, selected all
of them and pressed "mark as read". Job done.
I have a big hard disk so the fact TB doesn't delete stuff is neither
here nor there. In fact I never delete news messages - searching back
over time for those *really interesting snippets* is quite important
sometimes.
Cheers
Al
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