[PLUG] Ancient PLUG Mailing List (< mid-March 2002)

[Aaron Burt]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:02:06PM -0700, Daniel Hedlund wrote:
> Nothing a perl script couldn't clean up for you, breaking the mailbox 
> files down into individual emails and then grepping/regexping for the 
> mailing list address in the email to sort out the non-list traffic.

Formail and procmail are your friends here.  They're designed for this
kind of work.

> Besides the non-PLUG emails, how complete would the email collection you 
> have be?  I guess even that doesn't matter because each email would have 
> at least some unique identifier that we could use to weed out duplicates 
> from multiple peoples' collections as they were merged.

Ah, the magic of the Message-ID field.