I thought I was a nice guy ...

I somehow thought I usually was nice and helpful, however upon reading Marc`s e-mail about trying to make exim4 a little bit more foolproof, I realized I was not. My gut reaction to the problem (people failing to check the docs at all) was a simple "So what? Either they`ll learn the minimal basics (Docs on Debian are in /usr/share/doc and reading them can be helpful.) or Debian is not for them. I sure won`t be jumping through hoops for them." Lesson learned: I am just an elitist .

recent mutt discovery - spam tags

While browsing through mutt`s manual I stumbled upon this: ~H EXPR - messages with a spam attribute matching EXPR. After reading up on the spam tags I have changed my configuration to include spam "X-Spam-Score: .*\(\+\+" sa2 set index_format="%4C %Z %{%b %d} %-15.15F (%4c) %?H?[%H] ?%s" This improves my mail handling a lot. I can limit my view to ~H sa2 to bulk-move the spam in my inbox to the bayes-learn-spam folder. And false positives are easily discernable since possible spam (i.e. something marked with X-Spam-Score: 3.0 (+++)) is tagged with sa2 in the folder index: 27 Nov 04 jetlik jetlik (2,8K) [sa2] SpecMoney stock

the heaviest boot

Today I had problems trying to fix the versioning information of bug #343593. Neither the correct command notfound 343593 4.2.26-2 nor an unversioned reopen made the bts forget the wrong "found in 4.2.26-2". Jeroen told me of a heavier boot to kick the bts with: reassigning somewhere else and back again. This worked nicely. Documented here, so I will be able to look it up later.