Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!pollux!dalsqnt!rpp386!jfh From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: A solution to the dilemma Summary: ... or how to cancel portal articles with one command Message-ID: <6818@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Date: 19 Sep 88 01:55:08 GMT References: <6817@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (The Beach Bum) Distribution: world,!to.portal Organization: HASA, "S" Division Lines: 36 there is little need to speak harshly of a system and its users if one is not willing to act in an equally harsh manner. to this end, i have created a little shell script which seeks out portal postings and cancels them. i am posting it here to news.admin knowing that many of you will be tempted to actually use it. it has been tested and it works wonderfully. you should use it as well. just run this sucker once a day, and your life will be relatively free of portal-people. i suggest you run it in the morning. before you eat anything. - john. --------------------- cut here --------------------- cd /usr/spool/news if [ ! -f before ] then touch -am 0101000070 before fi touch now find . -newer before -type f -print | \ gethead 'From: ' | grep -y portal | \ sed -e 's/:.*$//' | gethead 'Message-ID: ' | sed -e 's/.*-ID: // s:^.*$:/usr/lib/news/inews -n control -c cancel & -d local: s/[<>]/\\&/g' | sh mv now before --------------------- cut here as well --------------- -- John F. Haugh II (jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US) HASA, "S" Division "If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong." -- Norm Schryer