Gus Wirth wrote: > At 11:27 11/29/2005 -0800, Tracy R Reed wrote: > >Gus Wirth wrote: > >> Don't do it. The tagging of messages in the header as spam is a function of > > > >Whoah...are we talking about tagging messages as spam or merely putting > >a tag in the subject to identify the mailing list such as [newbie] or > >[kooler]? I thought we were discussing the latter. I would agree that we > >don't want to be doing spam filtering. > > The problem the guy was having was that messages from the mailing list were > sometimes being flagged as spam. He wanted us to mangle the subject line so > that the spam filter at his ISP would let the messages through instead of > sequestering them.
The way I read it, was that the [kplug-newbie] Subject: line mangling would allow the requestor to more easily find kplug-newbie messages that mistakenly got tagged as spam. I don't know how much control the requestor has over the ISP's anti-spam measures. > The problem is in the spam filter at the ISP. All the guy needs to do is > filter on the To: line or the List-Id: line and look for kernel-panic and > white-list those e-mails. > > I don't thing we should do any mangling when there is no problem. I am not convinced there is no problem, but I will agree that 1) we don't see this problem and 2) not a lot of people do. -john -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
