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From: hanifl@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au (Greyham Stoney)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Can someone write a perl script to fix alt.sources?
Message-ID: <hanifl.668747352@ultima>
Date: 12 Mar 91 03:09:12 GMT
Sender: hanifl@socs.uts.edu.au (Greyham Stoney)
Organization: Computing Sciences, Uni of Technology, Sydney.
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Is anyone interested in writing a perl script that would be able to identify
non-source postings in alt.sources, and send the poster a friendly message
reminding them that it's only for source postings?

I came up with a short script that identified most things by looking for
simple keywords (like '/*', dot commands, #!, etc etc), but I've since left
that company. Most people that got a friendly form letter were appreciative
and in Perl it's easy to make the letter look personal by stripping their
first name from the From: field, etc.

It would be good if someone could do this to cut down on the alt.sources
junk.
							Greyham.