Re: [Nolug] Spam and Virus Protection

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 12:44, -ray wrote:
> On 10 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > > know of that can open a mailbox with 80,000 messages without barfing.
> >
> > Isn't that what filters are for? Subscribing to multiple active
> > mailing lists would be impossible w/o them.
>
> That is with filters. :) Mostly mailing lists i subscribe to but never
> have time to read... the messages just accumulate. It's still faster to
> grep a 100meg mailbox than to try to find something on web-based
> archives, for me anyway.

zcat mail_arch_debian-user-2002.mbox.gz | grep 'foo bar'

If wild card expansion works, then it quarterly or monthly
archiving would be practical.

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