[plug] Linux regexp's

[Mike Holland]

On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Brendan Whelan wrote:

> linux that I can use to grep all the email addresses out of a message?  Is

'grep'?  Or perl for fancier pattern matching.

> it bad netiquette to email these pedestrians and point them at, say, CIAC's
> hoax pages?

Not at all. But best not to reply to the same 2000-user mail list that
they posted to.

> I find such messages irritating, and wish there was some way to send them
> all to /dev/null :-)

Have you seen 'procmail'? Its good for filtering spam, but filtering virus
warnings may be a little trickier. You can certainly filter known
offenders or subject lines.


Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
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