I just match on either the
"Sender: owner-ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org"
header, or the ML specific email address I've created.
I'm using Sylpheed though, it seems to be more flexible on matching header
fields than most other email clients I've used in the past.
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 09:13:13 -0500
Gordon Cook <cook(_at_)cookreport(_dot_)com> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:00:38AM +0200, Pekka Savola wrote:
I don't- IMHO it's stupid to waste the precious bits in the subject
line to say "[ietf] " because there is no need for such. The messages
can be filtered better using other thods as well, and humans can look
at the headers..
I agree, for filtering everything's in the header already.
Tim
I do not use eudora to forward list mail to separate mail boxes.
therefore if i don't start list filtering into seperate mail boxes, i
am forced to guess where a piece of mail might be ietf since adding 6
characters to ever subject headers is judged unhelpful and
unacceptable?
There is no sure way at all to tell from a subject line whether its
IETF and to complain about adding 6 ascii characters to a subject
line wasting bits if it gives several thousand humans a hint as to
whether to open and read, or delete unopened, or delete mail to spam
mail box seems to be strange. But this point of view i guess is why
the list keepers have not yet and probably never will do what most of
the other lists that I receive do.
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