From: khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan) Subject: RE: Small request... 16 Apr 1998 08:56:34 -0700 Message-ID: References: <01BD67B4 DOT 0A57C3A0 DOT jimen AT adtech-inc DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Jimen Ching wrote: > I see many people opposing these requests, but I have yet to see a good > reason why it shouldn't be done. Just because there are alternatives doesn't > mean it is a bad idea. Second of all, filtering on 'Sender', 'To' and/or > 'CC' doesn't always work because some people use aliases for the mailing > list address. If you filter gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, you will miss these > messages. Adding a keyword in the subject line in all messages distributed > by the mailing list will guarantee that the filter will trap it. > > Why is it bad to 'bung up' the subject line? What's so special about a > subject line that you shouldn't 'bung it up'? Because it is unnecessary! Because it makes the subject line longer making it hard to quickly scan articles by subject -- very important for those who get tons of messages. As for aliases, unless someone defines global system aliases for Gnu-Win32 (can't imagine why any sysadmin will do this), it's expanded before your MTA sends it out, so it's not an issue. I'd rather have my filtering code miss a few (for whatever reasons) than have extra gunk added to the subject line. I subscribe to over 20 different mailing lists, and all of these are handled automatically via procmail-style tool (ours is a different setup, but the idea is the same), and it all works beautifully. FYI, I've been on this list a while, and don't remember gnu-win32 messages ending up in my mailbox by accident w/out getting routed to the appropriate folder automatically. Mumit - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".