On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:20:08AM -0600, Amanda SubbaRao wrote: > I'm sorry, I should have made myself clearer. I don't mean my own > email filters. I mean the filters the listserv has at the website. You > can chose to get "brin" or "scouted", "ot", etc, and then there's a > choice as to whether or not you get mail that isn't marked for any > special category. > > If I chose not get mail not marked in a specific category, would I > miss the replies to the "brin" stuff if I (or others) change the > "brin" to "br!n" or whatever in the subject line? (My guess would be > yes, but then I wondered why people bothered to change it, rather than > just delete it....)
I do my own filtering at my computer, so I can't answer your question about the listserv filters, but perhaps Nick or Julia can. As for why not delete the "brin:", it is to preserve, mostly, the subject line so people following that subject can continue to do so. > Right now, I'm only choosing not to receive stuff marked as off topic. Not much of that, I'm afraid. I use a mailread called "mutt" on Linux which does an excellent job of sorting the messages by their references, or if they have none, by guessing from the subject. It is called "threading", and it makes it really easy to deal with. Also, procmail, another linux program, sticks all of my Brin-L messages into a mailbox. So I can quickly see what threads are going, look at some, delete entire threads, etc. Also, I can "killfile" someone if I want to ignore them. I expect you can find similar functionality in programs for the OS you are using. -- "Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.erikreuter.net/ _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
