Focussing the Email Filter

For the last week all my incoming email passed through a Goo email filter (i.e., milter).

The filter scans each incoming message for Things (e.g., HelloWorld.pm, 1212.idea, 233.pain etc) and adds a hyperlink to each Thing. The idea is I want to minimise the overhead of context switching from email to performing a task.

My first reaction was surprise at the number of Things found in my email - there are Things everywhere! Even things you don't expect. I received an email about London.pm, for example, and The Goo marked up this email with a link to a non-existent Perl module called London.pm - OOps. Generally though it works well.

I receive a constant barrage of email from "robots" on the Turbo10 and Trexy clusters. One robot, "Ernie the Exception Checker" sends details of exceptions via email. The Goo filter now automatically adds hyperlinks to the underlying programs so I can context switch quickly to the offending line of code, squash the bug and get back again.