From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 14 14:48:23 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B9F16A46C for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:48:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from supernews.unixathome.org (supernews.unixathome.org [216.168.29.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E31C013C467 for ; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:48:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2F4617034; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:32:51 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixathome.org Received: from supernews.unixathome.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (supernews.unixathome.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HJVAHKbZx2Uc; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:32:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from laptop.unixathome.org (p1070.clients.superclick.com [71.242.99.130]) by supernews.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A74917032; Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:32:48 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <476293D0.3090407@langille.org> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:31:44 -0500 From: Dan Langille Organization: The FreeBSD Diary User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian References: <4761E8AD.4080000@brianwhalen.net> <20071213194324.E7985@wonkity.com> <4761F7C5.1060605@brianwhalen.net> <20071213214449.P8646@wonkity.com> <20071213220036.K8646@wonkity.com> <47621CE8.2000807@highperformance.net> <476220AA.5010603@brianwhalen.net> In-Reply-To: <476220AA.5010603@brianwhalen.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mailing lists X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:48:23 -0000 Brian wrote: > Jason C. Wells wrote: >> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote: >> >>> The fact that each mailing list exists as list@freebsd.org and >>> freebsd-list@freebsd.org makes me need to make 2 filters for each >>> list I subscribe to. Can I suggest that if this is going to >>> continue, that the server shows one format for all the messages that >>> go out? >> >> Filter on the Sender header. That is controlled by the list manager >> and doesn't have duplicate names. For -questions, the Sender is >> owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. >> > This is just the kind of thing we should avoid, we're choosing to make > the more difficult on user route because??? I filter on sender. Have done so for years. No problem at all. As for difficult, I understand the list alias exists to make things EASIER for users. They can use either list name. If this is the biggest problem in your life, consider yourself fortunate. :) -- Dan Langille - http://www.langille.org/ BSDCan - The Technical BSD Conference: http://www.bsdcan.org/