"reports" tidy-up?

[Julian Field]

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All good ideas, but *damn* tedious to fix in all languages :-(

David Lee wrote:
> Julian:  An observation and suggestion for background 'idle process'
> tidying as you continue to recover.
>
> The various "reports" files have a variety of different types of
> signature.  I suspect that these differences are the result of 'creep'
> rather than design.
>
> Amongst the variety:
>
> # --
> # Postmaster
> # %org-long-name%
> # %web-site%
> #
> # For all your IT requirements visit: http://www.transtec.co.uk
>
>
> # --
> # MailScanner
> # Email Virus Scanner
> # %org-long-name%
> # %web-site%
> #
> # For all your IT requirements visit: http://www.transtec.co.uk
>
>
> # --
> # MailScanner
> # Email Virus Scanner
> # %org-long-name%
> # %web-site%
>
>
> (And that's just a quick scan through just the English-language ones.)
>
> Could you consider not only rationalising all these, but also making
> eveything fully substitutable?
>
> For instance:
> 1. "Postmaster", "MailScanner" might use the "Local Postmaster" setting
>    from 'MailScanner.conf' (many sites might want a properly specified
>    email address there);
> 2. "Email Virus Scanner" probably either shouldn't be there, or should
>    have a consistent "%MS-product%" substitutable setting.
> 3. "For all your IT ..." should be consistently present, but in
>    substitutable form, such as "%MS-advert%".
>
> (And then, of course, someone might further suggest variation by
> rulesets...)
>
> Just a thought for background pondering and (I hope) improvement.
>
> Best wishes.
>
>
>   

Jules

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