Re: CFPs, conference announcements

[Simon Johnston <skj@ACM.ORG>]

> Bob Crispen says
>
> "I don't know if this is possible, but it sure would save me some time
  [snip]
> that their conference is kind of low-tech?"
>
> I strongly disagree. The full length announcements are fine. What is
> not fine is the idiotic software you are using that requires you to
> scroll through them. Any news reader has the capability of instantly
> deleting articles. If the digesting process and the software used
> to read these digests is decrepit, then that's unfortunate, and by
> all means should be fixed.
>

See if your mail reader has a reg-exp search and try ^From:[ \t]+ which
should skip you to the next mail.

>

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