On Monday 14 November 2005 1:00 pm, James Edward Gray II wrote: > Do we need a Ruby Quiz to parse the date out of an email header and > add 48 hours to it? laughs> Actually, we need the following, much more practical, quiz: Write a program that watches a mailing list (or newsgroup, if you prefer) for a message with a subject line that contains "[QUIZ]". If the body of that email also contains "Please do not post any solutions or spoiler discussion for this quiz until 48 hours have passed from the time on this message.", the program should email the list once per minute with the number of minutes remaining until the 48 hours have passed. Sample output should look about like this: ------------------------------ To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> From: "Annoying mailer" <usubscribe-me-fast / gmail.com> Subject: [QUIZ][COUNTDOWN] Index and Query (#54) 2879 minutes remaining! ------------------------------ ------------------------------ To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> From: "Annoying mailer" <usubscribe-me-fast / gmail.com> Subject: [QUIZ][COUNTDOWN] Index and Query (#54) 2878 minutes remaining! ------------------------------ ------------------------------ To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org> From: "Annoying mailer" <usubscribe-me-fast / gmail.com> Subject: [QUIZ][COUNTDOWN] Index and Query (#54) 2877 minutes remaining! ------------------------------ ... Yes, I'm joking. Keith