unscribe - solution - perl/Rev script to read mail like this and forward it to appropriate other perl/Rev script?

[Alex Tweedly]

James Witte wrote:

>
>   Might a bit of very simple NLP be in order here?
>
>   How difficult would it be to write a small (7 line perhaps?) Perl or 
> Rev script (I assume RunRev eats its own dogfood for it's list server 
> management too) to detect things like this, forward the sender address 
> to the appropriate other list-manger script, send a message to that 
> effect to the sender, and then delete it from the Use-Rev list (okay, 
> maybe 12 lines for all that).

Bad assumption. If you visit 
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution and scroll to 
the bottom, you'll see that they use "Mailman", which is "Python 
Powered". If you ask me, that was the right decision - use standard, 
existing tools and focus their development resources on their own 
business needs (i.e. fixing bugs and giving us more features !!)

>   We are programmers after all..

And that means will never have enough time to get everything finished - 
so we need to avoid distractions. :-)

btw - I think it would be quite difficult. You need to pick out many 
varied combinations of words that mean "unsubscribe" - but you'd better 
not pick out this email, or any of the preceding ones in this thread; 
similar complexity level to a Bayesian spam filter, so not impossible, 
but far from a 12-line script.

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