On 12 Sep 2000 michael@??? wrote:
> > There is no mechanism for tidying up "once" files - but I'm confused.
> > What information would you want to tidy away? Surely you want to
> > remember all the information that is ever put into the file?
>
> No, I don't. I want a compromise between "once" and the size of the file.
> Say the file has a size of 4KB (~ 100 addresses). If the number of
> addresses does not exceed the file capacity, I have "once" semantics.
> If it did, I would at least get rate limiting, because newer addresses
> would overwrite older ones.
Then your best bet is to pipe the message to some script which
implements these special semantics.
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