From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 9:19: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from uk2.kanda-systems.net (uk2.kanda-systems.net [193.195.117.202]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11A0637B400 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 09:18:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.kanda-systems.net (localhost.kanda-systems.net [127.0.0.1]) by uk2.kanda-systems.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 512093C1ED for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:29:43 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 18:29:43 +0000 (GMT) From: jason+freebsd@kanda.com X-X-Sender: jason@uk2.kanda-systems.net Reply-To: jason+freebsd@kanda.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: question on this list In-Reply-To: <3C8E9179.6060007@owt.com> Message-ID: <20020314181813.O69540-100000@uk2.kanda-systems.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Kent Stewart wrote: > > I find it necessary to filter on -questions, -stable, -hackers, > cvs-all and etc. That way doesn't do this. When they cc you directly, > it goes into my inbox and I don't want that to happen. Thats why I always sign up for mailing lists with an address like: jason+freebsd@kanda.com The procmail recipe becomes very straightforward and virtually infallable: :0: * $EXTENSION ?? freebsd freebsd It also has a few other advantages. 1. When I unsubscribe from a mailing list I can switch off the address, which is great if the e-mail addresses have been harvested for spamming. 2. Anyone who replies to my messages on or off list will also end up in that mailbox. (avoiding the CC problem above), if I want further corresponance in my main inbox I just adjust my reply address. This works with postfix+procmail. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message