Subject: Re: Bulk E-Mail

From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 16:52:31 +0800

> What is "Dev/Null"

The same as the "circular file"....sometimes called the "trash".

For sure this is not a pine topic...but I doubt you will find many people, if 
any, on this list who likes "bulk" (a.k.a. junk) mailings.

Regards,

        Ed

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 28 Jun 1997 11:28:31 +0200

>> "EG" == Ed Greshko <[email-masked]> writes:

>> What is "Dev/Null"
EG> The same as the "circular file"....sometimes called the "trash".

No, Ed. >;-> "Dev/Null" is nothing. /dev/null, however...

     -------------8<--------- snip here -----8<------------------
NAME
       null, zero - data sink
DESCRIPTION
       Data  written on a null or zero special file is discarded.
       Reads from the null special  file  always  return  end  of
       file, whereas reads from zero always return \0 characters.
       null and zero are typically created by:
              mknod -m 666 /dev/null c 1 3
              mknod -m 666 /dev/zero c 1 5
              chown root.mem /dev/null /dev/zero
FILES
       /dev/null
       /dev/zero
     -------------8<--------- snip here -----8<------------------

EG> [...] doubt you will find many people, if any, on this list who
EG> likes "bulk" (a.k.a. junk) mailings.

Yeah, right... But then again, what would I use my new-found toy
"junk.el" on? That's something pine could use: a function that fires
up a standard complaint to the usual guys: [email-masked],
[email-masked], [email-masked] etc.

And for the German readers: There's a nice article on UCE / Spam in
the new edition of c't.

Have a nice weekend,
Robin

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