Message-ID: <C3C07A3B-0AA6-49B8-9645-920D5060965F@gmail.com>
Date: 2011-10-21T09:26:03Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: R-help Digest, Vol 104, Issue 19
In-Reply-To: <20129.6374.387510.203035@stat.math.ethz.ch>
On Oct 21, 2011, at 09:01 , Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "ARE" == Alex Ruiz Euler <rruizeuler at ucsd.edu>
>>>>>> on Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:05:16 -0700 writes:
>
> ARE> Motion supported. Very.
>
> ARE> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:40:14 +0200
> ARE> peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> Argh!
>>>
>>> Someone please unsubscribe this guy?
>>>
>>> He did this over Summer too and still hasn't learned that 10000
>>> recipients of R-help do not care whether he is out of office!
>>>
>>> -pd
>
> Well, there are hundreds like him.
> The only difference being that he speaks Hungarian..
>
You might filter on the Subject line being "Re: [R] R-help Digest.*", with no attention to content. That has an obvious side effect, but maybe not a harmful one...
-pd
> Why? I (as R-* mailing list site maintainer)
> have had (procmail) filters that automatically catch such 'out of office'
> messages, so the 10'000 readers don't have to get them.
> The current set of filters catches a set of English, French,
> German,.. (and I don't know) messages
> So I have (many!!) filters like this:
>
> :0
> * ^Subject: (Re|Holiday|Vacation): .*[-A-za-z]+ Digest, Vol [1-9][0-9]*, Issue [1-9][0-9]*
> {
> :0B
> * I( will not be reading.*\<e?[-]?mail|.* away .* attend to your message when I get)
> mlist-bounced.spool
> }
>
> -------
> but can't start doing that for Hungarian or Chinese or ...
>
> Martin
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