From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,6c7a9cf9876c76c3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Ted Dennison Subject: Re: Application in Ada Date: 2000/05/09 Message-ID: <39181069.7B4D7790@telepath.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 621102218 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: 8eq6gq$vvb$1@nnrp1.deja.com X-Accept-Language: en,pdf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: Abuse Role , We Care X-Trace: monger.newsread.com 957878042 216.14.8.6 (Tue, 09 May 2000 09:14:02 EDT) Organization: Telepath Systems (telepath.com) MIME-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:14:02 EDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-05-09T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: > > Ted Dennison wrote: > > > >> But since everyone seems to love to come up with these suggestions, I > >> will mention that one of the ideas I had was for a meta-project which > >> would list good project ideas that could be persued. The focus would be > >> on filling empty software niches with Ada-written OpenSource software. > Or an e-mail filter program that is easy to set up and can be trusted > not to delete your mail. I use procmail at the moment, but procmail > isn't very easy for a lot of people. Haveing a powerful filter that > could remove SPAM mail and possibly viruses would have been just great. For that purpose, Netscape's filters work just fine for me. I have them throw suspected junk in a "Junk" folder, which I can look through at my leisure. Spam's actually kinda fun, when it isn't cluttering up your inbox. :-) Anything with an unexpected attachment type gets tossed in there too, which would take care of email viruses. Procmail is a little more powerful, but that power comes at a rather steep price. The only thing I've ever missed it for is the ability to redirect a selected portion of my email to a different address when I'm out of town (and thus my email reader/internet connection may not be up). However, if a good free software web browser ever does get built, I suppose a free software email/newsgroup tool would be needed too. Ditto with chat (this one may be covered, though). -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com Work - mailto:dennison@ssd.fsi.com WWW - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html ICQ - 10545591