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Grex Info Item 12: How to look at scribbled responses
Entered by popcorn on Mon Dec 7 05:11:56 UTC 1992:

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#1 of 14 by davel on Mon Dec 7 22:04:01 1992:

OK, Valerie, I'll bite:  *why* are scribbled responses kept around to be
looked at?  How big is this file?  and is it worth keeping?

#2 of 14 by pauls on Tue Dec 8 03:33:45 1992:

Better yet, do I have write access to the material in /h1b/bbs/censored?

#3 of 14 by tsty on Tue Dec 8 04:12:39 1992:

that file is 19109 ?blocks? large and has only read access ..

#4 of 14 by popcorn on Tue Dec 8 05:10:42 1992:

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#5 of 14 by davel on Tue Dec 8 11:18:45 1992:

Since the file is only 19000 *bytes* and even the old one (compressed) is
only 40000, we certainly won't solve our disk space problems on h1b by
purging them.

My own preference would be to link the thing to /dev/null.  If I want to
hide my stupidity from the world (or that part of it that hasn't already
observed it), I'd like the opportunity.  But it's no big deal.

#6 of 14 by carson on Wed Jun 29 21:15:16 1994:

(so where can such responses be found now?)

#7 of 14 by davel on Wed Jun 29 21:32:45 1994:

Still in the same place:
/bbs/censored (153352 bytes at the moment), and /bbs/censored.old.gz
(19707 bytes).  I suspect I had them backward when I gave sizes in
Dec. 1992, but who knows?  Anyway, you can look at /bbs/censored in all
the usual ways.

#8 of 14 by bubbles on Thu Jun 30 07:35:21 1994:

I just did !ls -al /bbs/cen* and it shows /bbs/censored as the newer file
with a size of 153623 bytes, last modified Jun 30 01:00.

#9 of 14 by mdw on Mon Jul 4 07:11:42 1994:

Actually, there's 2 flavours of "censor" - "expurgate" and "scribble".
Responses that that are merely "expurgated" are still visible in certain
circumstances, only "scribbled" responses get entirely tromped on.

#10 of 14 by bubbles on Wed Jul 6 01:06:53 1994:

#9, the "expurgated and scribbled" flags I've sometimes seen implies the
 possiblity of doing both to the same response.  Is this the case, and 
what do theey do in more detail?

#11 of 14 by remmers on Wed Jul 6 03:57:16 1994:

"Expurgate" sets a flag in the response header telling Picospan not
to display the response.  But the response is still present in the
item, and you can cause it to be displayed by typing "set noforget"
before reading the item.

"Scribble" actually replaces the text of the response by junk text,
effectively removing the response from the item.

Picospan will let you expurgate without scribbling, but as far as
I know you can't scribble without also expurgating.

#12 of 14 by popcorn on Wed Jul 6 12:57:54 1994:

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#13 of 14 by samjo on Fri Dec 21 13:02:54 2001:

Very intersting indeed ....

#14 of 14 by cmcgee on Fri Jul 5 15:12:11 2002:

Would someone update the info on how the scribble and expurgate commands
work now?

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