On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 11:42:41 -0400 Charlie Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If someone can't find a unique header on which to filter _any_ > specific mailing list without catching personal replies not going > through the mailing list server, one simply isn't bothering to look. While generally true, some list servers make it actively difficult. For instance the Gamsutra announcements, PIFR (People For Internet Responsibility), and the SANS security announcements have _NO_ unique headers for posts. Happily all are announcement lists. Other list services, such as Topica, just make it difficult. In Topica's case they do insert a unique header, X-topica-loop:, its just opaque as the value is a digit string which is unique to the list. eg: X-topica-loop: 1700028985 Not exactly human friendly. One practice I'd like to see more of is lists publishing filtering instructions for themselves. Even better though would be MUAs that _BY_DEFAULT_ create list-specific folders and filter mail into them whenever they see List-ID:, X-Mailing-List:, etc headers. -- 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.
