Some threads just go on too long. Personally I think a troll has hijacked the main centos list again and is inducing food fight behaviours while that troll perfectly 'innocently' asserting that it is just respoding to all email. see: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645 for a discussion of the problem of 'capture' in FOSS projects. But if one loses interest in a thread, it is easy enough to tune them out: 1. Install procmail; yum knows how 2. Add a mark and drop ruleset [herrold at new .procmail]$ cat ~/.procmail/killfilerc # # mark them :0fh ^ *List-Id:.*centos\.centos\.org ^ *Subject:.*CentOS Based Linux Firewall Document *!^X-brand | formail -A "X-brand: killfile " # and dump them :0 w * ^X-brand: killfile /dev/null 3. Integrate it in mailhandling; a fragment from: /home/herrold/.procmailrc # easy drops INCLUDERC=$HOME/.procmail/killfilerc ----------------------------------- easy enough to save 'caught' pieces to a file, rather than devnull until you are certain collateral damage has not been induced; see the procmail manpage series for a full discussion. -- Russ Herrold