[R] R-help Digest, Vol 104, Issue 19

[peter dalgaard]

On Oct 21, 2011, at 09:01 , Martin Maechler wrote:

>>>>>> "ARE" == Alex Ruiz Euler <rruizeuler at ucsd.edu>
>>>>>>    on Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:05:16 -0700 writes:
> 
>    ARE> Motion supported. Very.
> 
>    ARE> On Wed, 19 Oct 2011 15:40:14 +0200
>    ARE> peter dalgaard <pdalgd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>> Argh!
>>> 
>>> Someone please unsubscribe this guy?
>>> 
>>> He did this over Summer too and still hasn't learned that 10000
>>> recipients of R-help do not care whether he is out of office!
>>> 
>>> -pd
> 
> Well, there are hundreds like him.
> The only difference being that he speaks Hungarian..
> 

You might filter on the Subject line being "Re: [R] R-help Digest.*", with no attention to content. That has an obvious side effect, but maybe not a harmful one...

-pd


> Why?  I (as R-* mailing list site maintainer)
> have had (procmail) filters that automatically catch such 'out of office'
> messages, so the 10'000 readers don't have to get them.
> The current set of filters catches  a set of English, French,
> German,.. (and I don't know) messages
> So I have (many!!) filters like this:
> 
> :0
> * ^Subject: (Re|Holiday|Vacation): .*[-A-za-z]+ Digest, Vol [1-9][0-9]*, Issue [1-9][0-9]*
> {
>  :0B
>  * I( will not be reading.*\<e?[-]?mail|.* away .* attend to your message when I get)
>  mlist-bounced.spool
> }
> 
> -------
> but can't start doing that for Hungarian or Chinese or ...
> 
> Martin

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