remove me from the list

[Rutie Adler]

On May 2, 2005, at 11:24 PM, Jim Witte wrote:

> 'Anonymous' wrote something similar to this at some time(s) in the 
> past:
>> remove me..
>
>   As a member of this list, and amused by this 'remove storm' (I have 
> seen it before), I took about half a hour to write a little 
> Applescript to automatically send the 'remove confirmation' email to 
> anyone who writes to this list with the word 'remove' in the subject 
> line (This will mean that my own script will send *me* a remove 
> confirmation as well to *this* email..  Fitting it seems..  I will 
> ignore the confirmation email..)
>
>   If anyone who receives such a email, which will have a subject line 
> consisting of the word 'confirm' followed by a long string of 
> characters, in fact DOES want to get off the list, simply reply to the 
> confirmation email keeping the subject line intact.
>
>   If someone receives a 'confirmation' in error (my script is simple, 
> not a mind-reader, and doesn't do any fancy NLP on the body text), 
> simply delete the confirmation email and you will remain on the list - 
> hopefully with fewer 'remove me' emails, so that an actual discussion 
> of the use of Revolution in Education can start..
>
> Hoping for an end to the Remove Storm..
> Jim Witte
> Indiana University CS
>
> PS.  If this email seems just a *tad* playfully sarcastic, it is...
>
> PPS.  I really think this is something (perhaps *with* the fancy NLP) 
> which should be added to the standard Mailman package.  It is open 
> source after all.  Perhaps this summer I'll write a patch and send it 
> to the team...
>
> PPPS.  If anyone cares what my script looks like (it's another useful 
> example of how to write a "rule applescript" for use on MacOSX), here 
> it is:
>
> using terms from application "Mail"
> 	on perform mail action with messages theMessages for rule theRule
> 		tell application "Mail"
> 			repeat with eachMessage in theMessages
> 				set tAddr to sender of eachMessage
> 				
> 				if tAddr does not contain "<" then
> 					set theSender to tAddr
> 				else
> 					set tbeg to (offset of "<" in tAddr) + 1
> 					set tEnd to (offset of ">" in tAddr) - 1
> 					set theSender to characters tbeg thru tEnd of tAddr as text
> 				end if
> 				
> 				set tCommand to "curl 
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/options/education-revolution -d \""
> 				set tCommand to tCommand & "email="
> 				set tCommand to tCommand & theSender & "\""
> 				set tCommand to tCommand & " -d \""
> 				set tCommand to tCommand & "login-unsub=Unsubscribe\""
> 				
> 				try
> 					tell application "Terminal"
> 						do script tCommand
> 						quit
> 					end tell
> 				end try
> 			end repeat
> 		end tell
> 	end perform mail action with messages
> end using terms from
>
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Rutie Adler
Coordinator Hebrew Language Program
Near Eastern Studies Department
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-1940
(510) 642 4076