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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: GOOD GRIEF!!!  Re: trying to preset Reply-To:
From:       Wotan <wotan () netcom ! com>
Date:       1997-07-31 15:02:33
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On Wed, 30 Jul 1997, Ron Card wrote:

> I'll tell you what...  I just subscribed to this list a couple of days ago.
>  It's going to be my shortest time on a list... EVER!  

No Loss on our part, from what I can tell.  
 
> I don't know about the rest of you (actually, I'm afraid I may be the
> exception to the rule) but I think all of this foolishness on such a simple
> minded matter as appropriate contents of the "Reply to:" line, etc and who
> gets copied on what, etc. is a TOTAL and COMPLETE WASTE of bandwidth.
> Period.

Learn to use procmail.  It will auto-delete these threads for you if you
tell it too.  
 
> Good god, GET A LIFE!  With people dying and suffering and starving, is
> this ALL you can do with your time?

And how is my enjoying my hobbies going to improve someone else's lot?
Somehow I seriously doubt watching the lightning above the South Mountains
is going to end starvation somewhere.  :->
 
> AND...
> 
> HOW DARE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU PARTICIPATING IN THIS WASTE complain
> about the spammers. I don't like to get their crap either. It's a real pain
> when some slips in but at least I know that my filters work. 

Just becuase you don't like a discussion, doesn't mean others don't like
it.  Or are unwilling to learn from it.  

[snip some inane ranting] 

> And yes, I do volunteer myself...  at a school for the retarded and at my
> church.  I hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science, and I am also the CEO of a
> rapidly growing company. 

I see you have mastered the cincept of humility.  

> I value my time. I'll find another way to learn 
> the finer points of procmail.  This is too big a waste of time.

Bye.  May you enjoy learning without benefit of the list.  Maybe that will
teach you humility.

-- 
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
		-- Albert Einstein

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