Techniques for Automatically Ignoring Ted Holden

Techniques for Automatically Ignoring Ted Holden

[Bob Munck]

As a public service, I am preparing a series of short notes on ways you
can cause messages from Ted Holden <ted@grebyn.com> to be flushed
automatically, such that you need never again be aware that he exists. 
Karl's recent note to the contrary, Holden's other liabilities are not
balanced by the slapstick humor.

The way you ignore Holden depends on the way you currently receive his
"messages."  Unfortunately, there are a large number of possibilities
given the various operating systems, mail handlers, bulletin board
systems, and news handlers.  For example, I could be subjected to them
as direct mail from Info-Ada on my UNIX system with MH, as entries on
the MITRE Ada bulletin board, and as news items on comp.lang.ada through
the rn newsreader.  I will be describing how to flush him from each of
these three paths.  Other sources, such as Bitnet mail or VMS mailers,
are beyond my knowledge.  Maybe someone who does know such systems will
contribute the necessary techniques.


FLUSHING HOLDEN FROM UNIX/MH DIRECT MAIL

1. Create in your login directory a file named .forward (note the
leading period) containing exactly the following, quotes included, but
with your userid substituted for mine:

"| /usr/local/slocal -user munck"

Depending on local conditions, you may need to use "/usr/lib/mh/slocal"
or "/usr/local/lib/mh/slocal" instead of "/usr/local/slocal".  Type
"which slocal" to determine which to use, or ask your local UNIX guru.

2. Also in your login directory, create a file named .maildelivery with
the following three lines:

From "grebyn!ted"     destroy A -
From "ted@grebyn.com" destroy A -
From "Ted Holden"     destroy A -

The "A -" at the end of each line is necessary but not worth explaining. 
If messages from Holden arrive with values other than these in the From
header, add lines specifying them to .maildelivery.  For further
information, see the manual page for mhook ("man mhook").


Of course, you could use "munck@mitre.org" and "Bob Munck" in the above
to get rid of stuff from me.  But why would you want to?

                            -- Bob Munck <munck@mitre.org>

Re: Techniques for Automatically Ignoring Ted Holden

[Dave Hawk]

>> As a public service, I am preparing a series of short notes on ways you
>> can cause messages from Ted Holden <ted@grebyn.com> to be flushed
>> automatically, such that you need never again be aware that he exists. 

Thankyou Thankyou Thankyou THANKYOU!!!

However this solves only half the problem.  Do you have any good ways to
automatically ignore any responses to his diatribes?