It would appear that on Apr 25, Hitman did say: > To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <1082933689.4304.2.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Reply-To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list <redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > From: Hitman <hitman0810@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: 25 Apr 2004 18:54:50 -0400 > In-Reply-To: <20040425160016.A9F01743B2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: redhat-list Digest, Vol 2, Issue 46 > > On Sun, 2004-04-25 at 12:00, redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > At first I was irritated at the idea that someone would quote the entire digest in a reply to the list. Then I remembered that some people don't realize their mail client is quoting the whole digest and maybe, just didn't think to trim the quote down to the part they were replying to. So I tried to find the new content. But I couldn't. | --- --- | <o> <o> | ^ | /---\ < ARRRGH > | \___/ Yet I still found it hard to believe anyone would feed an entire digest back to the list without adding, at least SOME, content... So I started a reply from pine which prepended "> " to every quoted line including the quoted headers. Then since my copy of pine is configured to use vim for my composer, I could use the following two quoted :commands (with quoted result status lines) to filter out everything that Hitman's post was only quoting thus I would finally find the new content... :1,$s/^> >.*$/!/ 1684 substitutions on 1684 lines :1,$g/^\!$/d 1684 fewer lines Hmmnnn well it looks like there wasn't any new content from Hitman in the entire message. So why is he stuffing my mailbox with the digest? If I want the digest, I'll subscribe to it. I suppose it could be a typo, you know, an unfinished reply that got away... But I think I've seen this before from Hitman. I can't be sure though because I didn't save it. <sigh> Please mister Hitman, try not to do this to the list. -- | | ^^^ ^^^ | <o> <o> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ ` J(tWdy)P | ___ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> | ' ` -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
