On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 09:40:04AM -0600, Gary Bankston wrote:
> I've a suggestion that I would like to make for the general operation of
> this listserver.
>
> If it is possible to configure the listserver to put [cdrecord] (or the
> entry of your choice) into the front of the subject line of every message
> it sends out, it would make it very easy to filter messages from this
> listserver.
>
> I'm on several list servers and mailing lists so I get quite a bit of mail
> piling up in my in box. Its nice when there is some way to automatically
> identify and sort messages as they come in. As it is, I have to manually
> select each message and read it to figure out whether it is some business
> or a cdrecord message.
>
> Some of the other listservers I'm on do this. Its done by the list server
> so the user just has to put in what ever subject they like. The listserver
> adds the [id tag] into the messages before they go out.
>
> Just a suggestion to make your listserver's messages easier to identify :)
The main problem with your solution is, that some localized mail
clients add other prefixes then 'Re:' for responses. (German clients
for example sometimes add 'AW:' for 'Antwort'. This is not recognized
by the list processor and you get subject lines like
Subject: [cdrecord] AW: [cdrecord] AW: [cdrecord] Some topic
And this is awful in my opinion.
You may want to grep for the header line beginning with
X-Mailing-List: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
which is added by the list processor to each message. This solution
ist more reliable than a filter rule based on the subject line and
does not render the subject line unreadable.
Robert
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