[olug] Unix Tip: I SED BLANK

Ryan Stille rps at willconsult.com
Tue Feb 25 15:20:42 UTC 2003


>Someone could have sent a message to the list pointing out the Unix Tips 
>mailing list and tell folks how they can subscribe to it on their own, but to 
>subscribe the entire list to another list is bad nettiquette. Sure, I can 
>create a procmail filter to send the messages to /dev/null, but that puts the 
>burden on me to do something to not receive mail I don't want.

When it gets posted to the list we usually see a good dicussion about that tip: slightly better ways to do it, hows + whys, etc, that you wouldn't get if people got received the tip individually.  If there is really that many people upset about it I say take a vote and the majority rules.

-Ryan




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