[H-GEN] Procmail recipe

[Robert Brockway]

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On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Harry Phillips wrote:

> I will let you know if I do hit a rough patch that man pages, faq,
> googling and alot of experimenting can't get me working.

I recomend using spamc/spamd instead of the perl script as performance is
several orders of magnitude better.  They all come with SpamAssassin.

> There have been several times in the last week or so that I have felt
> I had hit a brick wall, typed up an e-mail to send to the list and
> while writing thought of something else to try. I go away tried it and
> wrote up another e-mail explaining what I did, the results etc and the
> same thing happens, I think of something else to try out.
>
> Just the act of logically laying out the things you tried and the
> results you got help, even if you don't hit 'Send', sometimes the new
> idea hits you *after* hitting send.   ....Now to clean out that drafts
> folder......

The is the idea behind the "explain it to the bear" idea that many
developers use.  You explain it to a small toy bear who listens intently.
Be the time you finish explaining it (out loud) you have a better
understanding than you did before.

> > We should have brought it to you ;)
>
> That would have been, umm ....interesting, given the size of my house,
> the fact that I only have dial-up and my wife and kids hired a movie
> to watch while I was 'working'.

Rotfl :)

Rob

Cheers,
	-Rob

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