[scottish] talks for September((not)August) 2002

[neil sinclair]

Yep, OK, I'm a newbie, so I'm probably going to lower the tone around here 
but ...

I'd like to be able to filter out spam, secure my internet connection, that 
kind of stuff.

I run RH7.2 through a 56K modem, and I have _very_ limited experience of 
modifying system settings (the most useful thing I have done so far is use 
chmod to get SCSI scanner / USB palm connections working).

If you think I might understand what's going on, I'd be keen to come along to 
the meeting - where is it and when?

Cheers,

Neil Sinclair.


On Saturday 14 Sep 2002 11:30 pm, you wrote:
> OK - so I'm going to ramble on^W^Wtalk interestingly about procmail at
> this month's meeting.
>
> I'd appreciate knowing beforehand if there are particular areas that
> would be more interesting to people.  General stuff about building
> conditions?  How to use regular expressions and still have an active and
> enjoyable life?  Debugging recipes for fun and profit?  Or more scary
> stuff like invoking external programs in conditions?  Weighted scoring?
> Recursive include files, even?
>
> If there are no particular preferences I'll probably cover some basic
> details for the benefit of those who want to do things like standard
> mailing-list sorting and simple spam filtering, talk a bit about regular
> expressions and how to write them, plus how they're quite different from
> egrep regexes despite what the man pages say, and cover weighted scoring
> to the point where you even wonder how the man pages make it sound like
> they're really difficult.
>
> If there are particular preferences then please let me know :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Martin