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Re: Formal request : Add [linux-il] to subject



On 30 Aug 1998, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

> Guy Cohen <guy@spice.org.il> writes:
> 
> > On 30 Aug 1998, Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:
> > > 
> > > Precisely. Look at that To and Cc fields for linux-il and you'll know
> > > which messages came from the list. You don't need to modify the
> > > subject field. 
> > > 
> > Well , you see, using pine and seing like 100 mails 
> > dont gives me the abilty to open each one to check the To/Cc
> > if you know pine you know how mail is presented.
> 
> I have not used pine for quite a few years, but as I recall you can
> filter by recipients or senders as well as subjects. Maybe a pine
> expert on the list can tell you how to do it (or tell me that it is
> impossible). Better yet, maybe you could check again with the pine
> documentation.  In any case, it's trivial to set up procmail to filter
> your mail _before_ it gets to your favourite mailer. You can also use
> formail to rewrite the subject field the way you like it. Consult the
> man pages for procmail, procmailrc, procmailex, formail.

The funny thing in these discussions is, that RTFM (re: pine) always comes
after talking to the list, even for pine users ;)

Anyway, if you are serious about this, you can propose a new (gasp) header
field that will be something like X-Mailing-List: linux-il@linux.org.il .
procmail and other pine can catch this easily. But I know you won't do
this.

So, yes, ok, you can add [linux-il] to the $SUBJ although who knows who
needs it.

$0.02

Peter