On Sat, 1 Dec 2001 08:38:23 -0500 Bernie Cosell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> And so I think that we're just nowhere near the time to be able to > talk about actually *USING* those headers in any serious way for > real-world mailing lists, wouldn't you say? As was pointed out, > LOTS of folk use MUAs that can't even _filter_ on those headers, > much less actually *support* them as they were intended... Even Qualcomm, who were active/significant participants in the development of RFC 2369, don't support it in Eudora (which shouldn't come as a surprise). More simply on the mail filtering side for commercially developed MUAs, there's very little reason for the to do the work. It adds considerable UI complexity, considerable QA time/complexity, considerable tech support and documentation overhead, and all for a feature that less than 0.1% of their users will ever use, let alone notice. Now what would be interesting would be an MU which by *DEFAULT* auto-created folders and filterd list messages into them based on the values of RFC 2369 headers, X-Mailing-List, etc. An MUA that attempted to do it all for you, out of the box, but then also let you diddle it if/as needed. And yes, this is of course trivial to do under procmail. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.
