On Friday 13 September 2002 05:30 pm, nassarsa at redconcepts.net wrote:
> I understand that we all have our affiliations, and I have no problem with
> mentioning them in sigs, but do we really need to make potentially
> offensive political statements in our sigs?

If either the consensus or the listmanager's ruling (or, of course, both) is 
that "potentially offensive political statements in ... sigs" is unacceptable 
on the TCLUG mailing list, I'm certainly willing to abide by that and 
unsubscribe, rather than get into a long or even a short discussion about 
what is and isn't offensive, politically, or otherwise; it's not my list, 
after all.  Playing with sigrot to adjust for others' sensitivities actually 
sounds like a lot of fun, but I think it's beyond my limited skills.  

Failing that -- or even not failing that -- I'd prefer to discuss political 
issues, and offense taken to political comments in sigs, other than on this 
particular mailing list.  YMMV.  

On a more linux-related note, it is fairly easy to use procmail to filter on 
From: lines.  Somebody who was to add a recipe like

:0:
* ^From:.*joelr at ellegon.com
/dev/null 

to their .procmailrc would never actually see a message from me, although that 
wouldn't prevent it from being seen by others.  Just as an example.  (Is the 
lockfile really necessary?  I dunno.)  Which doesn't, of course, deal with 
the problem of quoted messages.  I'm sure that there's a fairly simple recipe 
that could send all messages containing, say, the string 
"thuggeeisareligionofdeath" to the bit-bin as well, although I don't know it 
off the top of my head.  I know that spamblocker does filter on content, as 
well as headers, so there's probably an easy way to do it.  

jr

-- 
So you know what, Saddam?  Go ahead. Yep, you heard us
right. That was the green light, just like the one you
thought you got from that Glaspie woman, only this time we
mean it. Take Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia too. It would take
you what, three days? Go ahead and butcher the Al Sabahs and
the whole Saudi royal family. Have at it. Any dissent? We
know you know how to handle it, just don't tell us about the
details. Let Noam Chomsky worry about it.
							-- Claire Berlinksi, A
							Modest Proposal
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=3881

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