On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:04:21 PST, David Morris said:
> 
> The point of [ietf] has little to do with programatic filters and much to
> do with human visual filtering. Seeing the list tag in the list of
> subjects provided in the index list provided by my mail client makes
> human prioritization much easier. Headers are for programs, subject
> content is for humans. There is a need though you may not feel the need.

Procmail is your friend

:0
*^Return-path:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
{

  :0
  * ^Subject:\/.+
  OLDSUB="$MATCH"

  :0 hwf
  | formail -I "Subject: [ietf] $OLDSUB"
}

It can probably be done more simply - I'm just winging it here.

(Yes, I know procmail isn't available on a certain popular system.  I don't
have much sympathy for the position that the IETF list should do substandard
things in order to support people who insist on using substandard tools.)

Proper chasing of Message-Id: and References: will even allow visualisation of
threading for off-list replies with changed Subject: lines, which is obviously
not anything the IETF mail server can help with.

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