[NTLK] Re: How do I stop all the at once emails!

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Jun 14 2001 - 04:27:08 PDT

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Eric L. Strobel wrote:
> on 6/13/01 10:15 PM, countless monkeys randomly typing on behalf of Victor
> Rehorst at victor_at_newtontalk.net miraculously produced:
>
> > I just have to go through the queue of messages that listar blocked
> > because of peopole sending unsub requests to the list, and then I need
> > some sleep, dammit.
>
> So, any way you could have Listar dump those filtered unsub messages into a
> folder, then have a PERL script rip thru the whole folder say 4x a day to
> unsub them and send a confirmation message?? I don't know about you, but it
> always irks me to do repetitive things manually on a computer. Now, if I
> could just find the time to learn AppleScript...

I could, I guess. They're getting fewer and fewer. Listar automatically
recognizes basic bounce messages from many popular MTAs, so that's nice.

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