On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Joseph Del Corso wrote:
> There is NO inconvience is having an
> [AMU] appended to the front/end of a message subject;
This is an opinion stated as a fact. My opinion is different. Those
6 chars at the beginning force 6 chars of actual information out of
the right end of the subject field of the message list, leaving less
readable information available to use when deciding whether or not to
read each message.
> and frankly being
> on a couple dozen different mailing lists and recieving on the order of
> 200 emails a day, things like what was suggested only helps in the long
> run.
Perhaps it would help the two of you. Perhaps you can explain why
the rest of us should be inconvenienced because you can't spare the
time to learn to use the right tool for the right job? 200 m/day might
be a burden for you. For many of us that's a light day. The list
messages are already tagged in the Sender: header. Please learn to
use it.
> Mitch - Can you explain in 100 words or less specifically how to filter
> the email to do something like this on a RH system? or how one can do
> this if they don't have root access? Specific program filters and
> howto's would be nice.
This list is for discussion of amanda issues, so while the
meta-discussion above is treading the line of being off-topic, e-mail
tutoring is IMO over the line. You didn't say what MUA you use, so I
can't guess which solution you should start with but to get you started
I did a google search for "mail filter". One of the interesting pages
it turned up is:
http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~revelant/if/filter_howto.html
This contains pointers to lots of useful resources.
-Mitch
