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Subject: RE: Remove_line
From: "Brian L. Heess" <brian @ thru . net>
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 12:52:06 -0500
To: "Jason L Tibbitts III" <tibbs @ math . uh . edu>, <majordomo-workers @ GreatCircle . COM>, "St - Musaic.Net" <st . einar @ musaic . net>
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Jason said:
> >>>>> "St" == "St  <- Musaic.Net" <st.einar@musaic.net>> writes:
> St> I would like Majordomo 2 to have the option to remove repeated and
> St> unwanted lines such as:
>
> Hmmm.  I'm kind of iffy on the subject of just deleting text out of
> posters' messages.  What do others here think?  I think removing
> attachments is much less of an issue, but just going in and clipping
> lines....  What if you don't like a user's signature, so you just trim it
> out?

I do this now in resend (1.94.4)...  You want the section of code?  It works
VERY well, but of course would be much easier to manage from a variable set
in majordomo.cf... :)

> This is also pretty computationally intensive, and would require a
> nontrivial amount of restructuring to make sure we do only one run through
> the body during the process of sending the message.  MIME issues further
> complicate things.

I totally see this and agree.  I had that thought when implementing it in
the 1.94.4 stuff, but finally kicked myself saying "well, since 33% of the
subscribers come from this webmail place, the saved disc space is worth it".

-Brian




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