Re: Mail senders' address extraction

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On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 13:11 -0600, Robert wrote:
> Tim wrote:
> > On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 14:00 -0600, Robert wrote:
> >> The SPAM situation has gotten to the point that I'm gonna start doing
> >> permissive filtering -- mail from anyone not specifically allowed gets
> >> auto-dumped. The idea is to get a list of everyone who has mailed me
> >> in 2006 and decide who of those on that list I'd like to hear from in
> >> 2007 and beyond.
> > 
> > Reminds me of those people I know that tell me, "I have a telephone, but
> > I never answer it," though they expect anyone that they call to answer
> > theirs.
> > 
> > It's a seriously flawed approach.  How does someone new contact you?  Or
> > someone who's had to change addresses.  They can't, they can't even
> > arrange to contact you.
> > 
> 
> Surely, Tim, you must realize that your 2nd paragraph describes EXACTLY 
> what I want.  Think "--state ESTABLISHED" and you can get a really clear 
> picture of what I'll have in place when the ball falls at Times Square.
> 
> I had hoped someone might have done a nifty little script for examining 
> existing mail but by adding another grep, a sed here, a tr there and 
> some options for sort, my original one-liner does all I need.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> 
I hope this is not the Tim who makes it clear that he is not reachable
through his return address. Someday I need to share my rant about people
who have unlisted telephone numbers.
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