X-Message-Number: 2918
From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344)
Subject: CRYONICS Killing Queued Messages

Normally the cryonics mailing list runs fairly automatically.
Except for administrative chores that I haven't bothered to automate,
such as adding people to the list or removing them from it or some
fail-safes that trap email potentially intended just for me,
it doesn't require much intervention on my part.  When I am on
vacation, though, it runs completely automatically.  If you happen
to send email to me that was intended to be personal email, but
mistakenly put a capitalized "CRYONICS" in the Subject line,
your message will get queued up for the mailing list and nobody
will be able to stop it from going out to the list that night.
Until now.

I just added another hack to the mailing list software.  It is
admittedly yet another example of the idiosyncratic, nonstandard
way I make this mailing list run, but you may find it useful.
I call it the "CRYOKILL" feature.  (Given that cryonics is supposed
to _preserve_ life, the term "CryoKill" is somewhat of an oxymoron,
isn't it?)  If you send email to me with a Subject line that includes
CRYOKILL in capital letters, such as:
    Subject: Testing CRYOKILL Feature
the software will replace all your messages in the queue with messages
by "Nobody" titled "Auto-Killed Message" and the contents of the
messages will be one-liners explaining that the messages were auto-killed.
Note: CRYOKILL will not kill messages from anyone else; you can only
kill your own messages.

                              Kevin Q. Brown
                              
                              

PS: The CRYOKILL feature won't help much you if you have "SCI.CRYONICS"
    in the Subject line of the message you want to kill.  True, it will
    filter your message from the 200 or so people on the mailing list,
    since the mailing list digest goes out only once a night, but by
    the time the CRYOKILL email arrives, the posting to the USENET
    sci.cryonics news group will have been done already, since that
    forwarding is done immediately.

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