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



Here's the bottom line:
Does anyone mind adding [linux-il] to the subject line for any reason?
That person should write to the list. (Please don't write "it is possible
that someone...". Only write if it causes inconvenience to YOU).

I suggest that if a message objecting to this idea is not received by the
list within two (2) weeks from today (Sunday 30/8/1998), we will ask the
maintainer[s] to add this.

Any objections?


Regards,
Yannai.

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Yannai A. Gonczarowski    System Administrator    yannaigo@leyada.jlm.k12.il
The Hebrew University High School    http://www.leyada.jlm.k12.il/~yannaigo/

Si vis pacem, para bellum
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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.
> 
> Now imagine someone who filters out all linux-il messages whose
> subject starts with "[Nn]ewbie", "[Oo]ff-topic", "[Ff]lame", or
> "[Pp]ine [Qq]uestion" (no, I don't do that). He/she will have to
> modify or at least check the filtering rules to accomodate the
> extraneous [linux-il].
> 
> To reiterate: I don't care if [linux-il] is present in the subject
> field or not. For my personal needs it is probably useless and
> harmless. I am pointing out that one can solve the problem at hand
> without asking anyone else to solve it for him while possibly causing
> (minor?) inconveniences for others.
> 
> --
> Oleg Goldshmidt          goldshmt@netvision.net.il
> BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM)     oleg@bfr.co.il