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Re: burst digests?



On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 02:47:03PM EST, Stephen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 07:04:17AM -0500 or thereabouts, David T-G wrote:

> > Right.  But speaking of procmail...  Why not just get the regular
> > messages and procmail them off to a list folder?
> 
> Yeah could do that... just thought I'd try a project. It's been a few years
> since I last burst a digest. At the time, my e-mail client (Mac GUI
> client called Claris Emailer), could do this on it's own quite nicely.

IIRC, Claris Emailer didn't do threading, so it could care less about
getting the IRT or references headers right.  You can do the same in
Mutt with a small filter, like metamutt, but set up to read Yahoo!'s
digest format instead of the digest format used in Mutt lists (ezmlm?).

> "Save this (below) as a file (metamutt). Be sure to make it executable.
> Then in your .muttrc add a macro like this:
> 
> macro index \Cx "| metamutt -d\n"

> #!/bin/sh
> #
> ## metamutt
> #
> ## (c) 1997 Roland Rosenfeld <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> Thing is, I couldn't get this to work. Anyone have suggestions, and
> should it in fact work?

As I said, I don't know if metamutt was designed to work with
Yahoo! Groups. . .

> I understand that Emacs will do this quite handily. ;)

Yeah, emacs will do everything but your dishes, since after all it
contains everything but the kitchen sink.  However, a minor problem is
that emacs is also a really good /dev/null(4) emulator (implemented in
pure EMACS LISP, of course - a language that knows the value of everything
but the cost of nothing) for system resources, so your CPU can quickly
sink into obsolescence.  Seriously, though, did somebody bother to get
emacs parsing Yahoo! Groups digests correctly?

> -- 
> Stephen
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the
> best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss
> hold the Americas Cup, France is accusing the US of arrogance, Germany
> doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are
> named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon'"
>                                         --unknown

LOL :-)

 - Dave

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