Re: My delayed complaint about spam on this list

[Steven Penny <svnpenn@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 5 Jun 2018 13:38:14, Erik Soderquist wrote:
> I have seen many people (and have done this myself before I
> subscribed) participate in the discussion of their specific topic on
> the list without subscribing by watching the public archive of the
> list for updates to their topics and crafting the response email
> manually.

Yep, I do this. I do not subscribe because I do not want my inbox flooded with
emails, and I couldnt figure out a sane way to only see the messages I care
about:

- http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/54707/exclude-starred-messages
- http://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/55045/gmail-label-unread-count

So I wrote an Awk script that essentially invokes cURL with the right params to
reply to mailing list messages, without being subscribed:

http://github.com/svnpenn/tryst

If OP is suggesting people can only reply if they are subscribed, then I am not
a fan of that.


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