From: Erik Hatcher <erik@...>
Date: 2003-09-28T07:41:04+09:00
Subject: Re: OT: alerts - was Re: Fwd: FW: Porting Suggestions: Lucene to Ruby; Perl Text::Balanced

On Saturday, September 27, 2003, at 01:00  PM, Hal Fulton wrote:
> Erik Hatcher wrote:
>> I was alerted about me being mentioned on ruby-talk, as I was not 
>> subscribed.  I'm now here!
>
> This interests me, because I've suspected there must be a tool
> like this in existence.

Yeah, its called Carnivore :-O

> Rather like accidentally mentioning a demon's name and thereby
> summoning him. But most supernatural entities have to have
> their names mentioned thrice in succession, whereas on Usenet,
> once is enough.

Well, there were three e-mails on rucene before I appeared, does that 
count?

> What's the scoop on how this alert works, anyway?

It was much lower tech than suspected.  A friend also on this list 
forwarded me the mail where I was mentioned.  I was long overdue 
signing up here anyway.

	Erik