Thanks very much, I'll play with it a bit.
On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Daniel Liston wrote:
>
> This is a fine idea, but how do you handle differences between top
> posters, bottom posters, and those that insert comments inline with
> the quoted message body?
>
> You could modify 'resend' to do what you want with a regular
> expression to monitor the message body too. Without regard to the
> warnings in my first paragraph, the code would look something like
> this;
>
> while <INBODY> {
> if (( $_ =~ m/^>.*$/ ) && ( $. >= 6 )) {
> next;
> }
> }
>
> To explain, the code above is checking the message body for lines
> beginning with "> anything to end of line" and skipping over them
> if the line number is greater than 5.
>
> Dan Liston
>
> Hennie Rautenbach wrote:
> > Nope ! I want everything stripped that has a ">" at the beginning of the
> > line except for the top 5 lines beginning with ">" !
> >
> > It is to remove the stuff that people don't trim from their messages
> > when replying.
> >
> > Daniel Liston wrote:
> >
> >> You mean like the footer stamped onto your message? :)
> >>
> >> Procmail can manipulate a message just about any way you want it to.
> >> The problem is writing a regular expression that will strip out what
> >> you want stripped while NOT stripping lines you do not want stripped
> >> out.
> >>
> >> Dan Liston
> >>
> >> Hennie Rautenbach wrote:
> >>
> >>> Dear folks,
> >>>
> >>> Can anyone point me to a filter that strips majordomo distributed
> >>> messages of unnecessary quoted text ? Such as the most annoying
> >>> disclaimers etc. that always end up in the replies (digests etc.)
> >>>
> >>> Is there such a beast ?
> >>>
> >>> Looking forward to your positive reply.
> >>>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>>
> >>> Hennie
> >>>
> >>>
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