Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!convex!news From: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Can someone write a perl script to fix alt.sources? Message-ID: <1991Mar12.042143.19589@convex.com> Date: 12 Mar 91 04:21:43 GMT References: Sender: news@convex.com (news access account) Reply-To: tchrist@convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) Organization: CONVEX Software Development, Richardson, TX Lines: 18 Nntp-Posting-Host: pixel.convex.com From the keyboard of hanifl@ultima.socs.uts.edu.au (Greyham Stoney): :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? : :It would be good if someone could do this to cut down on the alt.sources :junk. I think it would be hard to do this automatically. And maybe you don't want to... I tried to address the issue with a relatively nice letter that gets spawned by a keystroke macro in rn, but while I got about 9 nice answers and only one nasty one for my efforts, this isn't going over very well in alt.sources.d. Go see what I mean. --tom