[olug] Unix Tip: I SED BLANK

[IrishMASMS]

<quote who="Christopher Cashell">
> At Tue, 18 Feb 03, Unidentified Flying Banana Jeremy Bettis, said:
>> Who signed olug up for this unix tip mailing list?  I find it
>> annoying. If you like it so much sign up your own email, not
>> olug at olug.org.
>
> As someone else mentioned, this was actually done back in November.
>
> Personally, I strongly dislike it, both because I find many of the tips
> to be poor, and because I generally dislike the idea of subscribing a
> whole mailing list to another mailing list.  It forces you to deal with
> both mailing lists, regardless of whether you want to, or not.
>
> The general consensus seemed to be that many people liked it, however.
> And those of us who don't like them, can delete them.
>
> The slight positive to it, is that they use a fairly regular subject
> line, so simply adding a regex/filter rule to catch "[olug] Unix Tip:"
> and dumping it in the spam/trash folder is fairly trivial.
>
>> --
>> Jeremy Bettis, Software Development Manager
>
> --
> | Christopher
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Again:
An often repeated quote on news.admin.net-abuse.email - <I>"Spam is not
about content, it is about consent".</I>