Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:59:03 -0500 From: greeves <sysadmin@mfn.org> To: greeves <sysadmin@mfn.org>, "'FreeBSD Questions'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "'Dan Nelson'" <dnelson@emsphone.com> Subject: RE: [FBSD-Q] Type header??? Message-ID: <01BD96C2.A9331140@GREEVES>
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---------- From: Dan Nelson Sent: Friday, June 12, 1998 11:02 PM To: greeves; 'FreeBSD Questions' Subject: Re: [FBSD-Q] Type header??? In the last episode (Jun 12), greeves said: <snip> > 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. I agree, the automatic "re:' feature is a pain, but if done properly, will NOT mess with a header that has already been assigned a header. What's wrong with installing Procmail and filtering on "Sender:"?, Not everyone has this option (myself included). For instance, I run a small but *very* heterogenous network which includes NT, FreeBSD, antiques like SVR3 and USL/SVR4, MS-DOS, and even a CMS box (although, fortunately, off-site!). The header allows *all* of us to filter, not just the lucky few who can see their headers. or bugging the author of your email package to allow filtering on arbitrary headers? Lets see.. ATT->USL->SCO; IBM; Micro$loth; hmmmm... This doesn't look like a feasible alternative. -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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