From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 12 21:02:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA22037 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21993 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 21:02:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA10333; Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:02:30 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980612230230.A10098@emsphone.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jun 1998 23:02:30 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: greeves , "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: Re: [FBSD-Q] Type header??? References: <01BD9650.8535FD60@dhcp7_ppp07.mfn.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: <01BD9650.8535FD60@dhcp7_ppp07.mfn.org>; from "greeves" on Fri Jun 12 22:22:00 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 12), greeves said: > subscribe send a notation header to sort on. For instance, If I send > a posting to NT Security about a new port attack, and put "New Port > Attack" in the subject line of my post, it will arrive from the > listserv like this: > > [NTSEC] New Port Attack > > Obviously, using the subject this way allows people (often me as > well, depending on what area of the shop I'm working in that day) who > can't filter automatically by sender or relay points to scan the > subjects quickly, and thereby determine if the mails can wait, or > whether a given email may be customer related. I dislike mailinglists messing with my subject header. It wastes 7 (in your example) characters in the subject and screws up replies (I've seen Re: [mysql] Re: [mysql] Re: [mysql] in one list) and list crossposts. What's wrong with installing Procmail and filtering on "Sender:"?, or bugging the author of your email package to allow filtering on arbitrary headers? -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message