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From: maart@cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: A deluge of email
Keywords: Help!!
Message-ID: <2734@piraat.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 13 Jun 89 05:49:23 GMT
References: <1223@altos86.UUCP>
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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learnd@lafcol (Dave Learn) writes:
\Help!  I'm being engulfed by email!!

\About a week ago, I tried to post an article to soc.religion.christian,
\... I am getting -- this is no joke -- about
\400 letter clones *each day*.  To make matters worse, I can't even wade
\through this flood because so many of them contain NULL characters.

Where is your faith? Moses waded through even greater floods of email! :-)

\Is there any way on Earth that I can stop these letters from sweeping me
\away?  Can I kill the job?  Put something in my profile that keeps these
\letters from reaching me?  Does anyone have a routine I can put in my
\profile that eliminates NULLs?

If you're using the MMDF mail system, put the following into ~/.maildelivery:

*	-	|	R	/your/home/directory/filter

Else put into ~/.forward:

"|/your/home/directory/filter"

In both cases the incoming message is piped into `filter': this program must
decide what to do with the message, presumedly depending on the `Subject:'
line - deleting the mail, filtering out NULLs, etc.
-- 
"I HATE arbitrary limits, especially when |Maarten Litmaath @ VU Amsterdam:
   they're small."  (Stephen Savitzky)    |maart@cs.vu.nl, mcvax!botter!maart