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[cobalt-users] Re:Out of Office



At 1:50 PM -0400 8/29/01, Darren Herman is rumored to have typed:

> Hello,
> I will be out of the office from 8am EST on August 29th to 2pm EST August
>29th. I will attend to your emails as soon as I can.

   Instead of complaints, how about something constructive, like a procmail
filter to eliminate the problem completely?

         Charlie (who sees he has to write another one to reject complete
                   digest issues from people without a clue...)



# Drop mail from anyone at icomputerservices.com, since they
#  must all be idiots; the mail server is in Verio's 157.238.*
#  B netblock, but no guarantee they won't move
:0
* ^From:.*@icomputerservices.com
{

	# Check to see if it's from the cobalt-users list; if it
	#  is, drop silently to /dev/null so the cobalt-users
	#  list server isn't punished unnecessarily, and we don't
	#  get removed from the list for undue bounces; has the
	#  added benefit that we won't have to listen to the clown's
	#  apologies later.
	:0
	* ^X-BeenThere: cobalt-users
	/dev/null

	# Otherwise, it must be from someone at the confused domain
	#  directly; since they obviously don't belong on the Net,
	#  reject with prejudice.
	:0 E
	{ EXITCODE = 67 HOST }

}