Re: list administrivia

["Jeremiah Curry" <jeremiahcurry@sprintmail.com>]

I have outlook sort anything to or from quattro@coimbra.ans.net into a
seperate folder in my inbox.  Works 95% of the time.

Jeremiah Curry
-----Original Message-----
From: c a l i b a n <caliban@sharon.net>
To: Mark L. Chang <mchang@ece.nwu.edu>
Cc: quattro <quattro@coimbra.ans.net>
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 4:22 PM
Subject: Re: list administrivia


>
> 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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