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,a839d8c4163b5054 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jcn@swl.msd.ray.com (John Norcross {83602}) Subject: Re: What's ADA? Date: 1996/05/03 Message-ID: <4mdqhh$5gm@swlpba.msd.ray.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 152915724 references: <31888e94.20333789@news.saipan.com> <4maead$qb2@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-05-03T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes: >"Does anybody know how to write a kill file that will automatically >delete all messages containing tedious admonishments about the >case-conventions used for spelling the name "Ada"?" >Hmmm! that's hard. Does anybody know how to write a kill file that will >automatically delete all messages containing quesions about how to write >a kill file that will .... Nope, the second part is easy - in that it's author will usually waste bandwidth quoting the said first party, so the implementation that solves the first problem will usually dispose of all follow-ups... What we really need is a kill file agent that reads all posts and only presents those of interest to us... Now *that* would be hard... :) John Norcross Team OS/2 & Ada --