Re: Hypermail

Martin Hamilton (mailto:martin@MRRL.LUT.AC.UK)
Sun, 24 Mar 1996 14:13:26 +0000

Message-Id: <199603241418.IAA18475@library.wustl.edu>
Date:         Sun, 24 Mar 1996 14:13:26 +0000
From: Martin Hamilton <mailto:martin@MRRL.LUT.AC.UK>
Subject:      Re: Hypermail
To: Multiple recipients of list WEBCAT-L <mailto:WEBCAT-L@WUVMD.WUSTL.EDU>

Sally Hambridge writes:

| Jeff - no "easy" way. You'll need to go to your
| hypermail archive and determine which message
| (0123.html e.g.) is the spam. You need to delete
| it, then delete all references to it in the
| index.html, date.html, subject.html,and author.html
| files. You can grep for the msg number, or for some
| other distinctive word to help find the references.

If you keep a plaintext archive too, you could maybe suspend mail deliveries for a while, move the old HTML-ized archive somewhere safe, and then regenerate from scratch - without the spam. Finally, turn deliveries back on again...

Toodle pip!

Martin