From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 13 10:00:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09234 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 10:00:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc1.mfn.org ([204.238.179.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA09085 for ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 09:59:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from GREEVES (unverified [204.238.179.200]) by mail.mfn.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:01:36 -0500 Received: by GREEVES with Microsoft Mail id <01BD96C2.A9331140@GREEVES>; Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:59:04 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD96C2.A9331140@GREEVES> From: greeves To: greeves , "'FreeBSD Questions'" , "'Dan Nelson'" Subject: RE: [FBSD-Q] Type header??? Date: Sat, 13 Jun 1998 11:59:03 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ---------- 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: > 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