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                      Software from the side of the road

I spent about half an hour or so upgrading the mailing list software I use.
Spring [1] has a few issues with it—namely that she can't filter the email
that it sends to her. I don't see what the actual problem is, since I do add
several headers to each outgoing email (such as “List-Name:” which I added
support for sometime in 2000) but her client (Microsoft's [DELETED-Lookout-
DELETED] Outlook) can't sort on arbitrary headers. So she's been on my case
to fix “that mailing list software I found on the side of the road” as she
puts it.

Yes, the software is quite old. In checking I started using it back in 1995
(and even then it was a few years old) with version 1.0.0 (a search I just
did revealed that version 1.2.0 was available in September of 1993 but I've
yet to actually find a copy of the source code) with a few very minor
modifications (that I've made) since.

But by the same token, the software is simple and I think there was only one
real bug in the code which I fixed early on (what it was I don't remember—the
comments only indicate I fixed something) and I haven't really had any
problems since I started using it.

But I went ahead and played with it today. I added some code to add a tag to
the subject line for easy filtering, which should make Spring (and some other
users) happy.

[1] http://www.springdew.com/

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