[wplug] Corp Disclaimer Tags

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Wed Jul 4 11:19:12 EDT 2007


On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 18:19 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> I've just written perl scripts that run in my ~/.procmailrc that  
> filter them out, which doesn't really solve anyone else's problem,  
> but it makes me happy.

How does that work?

Do you just cut off anything after the signature header (-- )?
Although that would still miss a lot.

Or is it a combnational analysis, hysteresis, metric, etc...?

> Of course, I only do that for people I care about.  I have procmail  
> delete anyone's message with signatures/disclaimers that annoy me.  I  
> figure if they say anything worthwhile, someone will reply to it, and  
> in most cases, they delete the stupid signature/disclaimer in the  
> reply text.  (except for those top-posting losers! :)

Oh, so it's an inclusion list, with one-off analysis?


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