From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: RE: Small request... 15 Apr 1998 23:56:01 -0700 Message-ID: <19980415134128.23058.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send1b.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: jimen AT adtech-inc DOT com, gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ---Jimen Ching 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 > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- Check out these great gnu-win32 related sites: ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/gnu-win32/latest/ (ftp site) http://www.cygnus.com/pubs/gnupro/ (Comercial Page) http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32/ (Project Page) http://www.cygnus.com/ml/gnu-win32 (Mail Archives) http://www.itribe.net/virtunix/winhelp-man-pages/ (HTML Man Pages) http://www.lexa.ru/sos (Sergey Okhapkin) ftp://www.lexa.ru/pub/domestic/sos/ (Sergey's ftp site) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~colin/gcc.html (Colin Peters) http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/software/gnu-win32/ (Mumit Khan) http://gnu-win32.paranoia.ru (Chuck Bogorad's ports) http://www.bestweb.net/~aka/gnu-win32/ (GNU-Win32 Bash Configuration) http://rcw.home.ml.org/ (Rob Warner - software ports) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/ (more - software portals) http://www.wenet.net/~garbanzo/gnuwin32/rpm (Redhat Package Manager) http://www.parallax.co.uk/~andyp/index_text.html (Andy Piper - ports) http://www.tiac.net/users/cgf (Christopher Faylor - package ports) ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/win32/develop/gnuwin32/ (German mirror) http://www.dol.ru/users/valtul (Valery Tulnikov - software ports) Help for Win32 Beginners: http://www.relisoft.com http://www.program.com/resources/win32.html DISCLAIMER: These links or links from these pages to other sites do not constitute an endorsement of any entities, advertisers, products or services therein. I am not responsible for and do not control or monitor the content of these sites or the accuracy of information found therein. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".