From:	earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	RE: Small request...
15 Apr 1998 23:56:01 -0700 :
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Reply-To:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com
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To:	jimen AT adtech-inc DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

---Jimen Ching <jimen AT adtech-inc DOT com> 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

Every mailer I've ever used always expands the alias to include the
actual address.  Therefore, you should never miss these messages in
the filter as long as you use the "contains" feature.


> 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'?


Subject: This is my test subject.
Subject: [gnuwin32] This is my test subject.
Subject: Re: [gnuwin32] This is my test subject.
Subject: [gnuwin32] Re: [gnuwin32] This is my test subject.
Subject: Re: [gnuwin32] Re: [gnuwin32] This is my test subject.
Subject: [gnuwin32] Re: [gnuwin32] Re:[gnuwin32] This is my test
subject.


I hope this is enough to convince you that you don't want to "bung up"
the subject line.  Also the subject line is one of the conditions for
controlling "threading".

> 
> --jc
> 

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