"J. David Bryan" wrote:
On 5 Oct 2003 at 7:28, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
To add some context, Chuck wrote in
Would it be possible to annotate the subject lines to indicate the source? Something like "[GPC] <original subject>".
I suppose you mean the `From:' header. Whereas the `Sender:' header should always be `gpc-owner@gnu.de'....
Indeed, filtering on:
Sender: gpc-owner@gnu.de
...reliably indicates GPC list mail.
In any case, this will *not* change the settings for all who are subscribed already (because we can't tell who explicitly wants them off).
Given that posts from current subscribers will not be prefixed, unless each subscriber changes his or her preference, prefix filtering will always be unreliable. Even electing to have prefixes added for new subscribers would seem to result in some posts having prefix characters and some posts not, again making prefix filtering unreliable.
Unless prefixing is forced on all subscribers -- new and current -- it will simply add "noise" to the subject lines of some list messages. For a workable solution, I'd recommend filtering on "Sender" and forgetting about prefixes.
You mistake my purpose.
First, I assume that the set prefix only applies to mail delivered to me from the list.
The reason is that my ISP is delivering caught spam to a different directory, where I have three days to check it. All I see is the from: and the subject: data, without laboriously reading each spam message.
Since I was delivering large quantities of mail to the ISPs spam detection system recently, it is quite possible something from various mailing lists got in. The only way to fix that, if it has occured, is to examine the stuff caught, via from: and subject: and I have to do that over their web based mail server. This avoids ever transmitting it back and forth to my machine over slow links.
I did not realize that the sender: field universally marked the list. That is much simpler than the filters I now use.