Re: list administrivia

[c a l i b a n <caliban@sharon.net>]

	yeah, i'm actually really adroit with my elm
	filters.  i should have clarafied in the letter.

	i want to get the q list in my regular inbox, 
	except on busy weekends and vacations.  for 
	those times i can normally filter.  what i want
	to do with a [q] in the subject makes it easier
	to sort messages in my (huge) inbox.  it works
	great for moy other lists - i *know* there's 
	a post in 2strokes i want to find but there's
	months of stale posts in my inbox.  sort by subject
	and they are all put together, easy to scan.

	it's no big deal, but perhaps there is some sort 
	of past flame war about this from before my time,
	perhaps phil needs to save 3 characters per message ;)
	anyway it's something that 90% of the lists i am
	on do, including the 6 or so that i maintain.

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Mark L. Chang wrote:

]On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, c a l i b a n wrote:
]
]> 
]> 	has it ever been discussed to add a string in the
]> 	subject field of the mail to allow for really simple,
]> 	clean filtering?  most of my lists have them, it
]> 	would be something like [quattro} or whatever.
]> 	perhaps something shorter, like [q], to not waste
]> 	space.
]
]Personally, I use the following line in good 'ol procmail:
]* ^Sender.*owner-quattro@coimbra.ans.net
]
]to file these into the right folders.  Never fails.
]
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