Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 23:48:25 -0400 From: Joe Konecny <jkonecn@green-mfg.com> To: FreeBSD List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: A request to the list owner. Message-ID: <377C3689.F13F33A3@green-mfg.com> References: <377BA053.8099D256@green-mfg.com> <19990701145914.U67907@001101.zer0.org>
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I think you guys are over-reacting. It's not that big of a deal. I belong to two other lists and both use a standard subject header stuck before your own. They obviously filter out multiple entries too because I never see the RE: Subject RE: Subject RE: Subject that so many are worried about. Gregory Sutter wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:07:31PM -0400, Joe Konecny wrote: > > Would it be possible to concatenate a standard header to the > > subject line of all messages originating from the FreeBSD > > mailing list? Something like "FreeBSD> Whatever subject" > > > > This makes managing mail easier for me and I would think > > others would find it useful. > > There are many reasons why this is a really bad idea. I'll let > others go into them, as they already have. :) If you're using > procmail, though, you could use this recipe to file your FreeBSD > mail into various folders: > > FROM="((X-)?(((Envelope-)?Sender|(Apparently-|Resent-)?From)|Reply-To|Return-Path):(.*\<)?)" > > :0 : > * $ (^$FROM|^TO_)freebsd.org > * ^Sender:[ ]*owner-(freebsd-)?\/(advocacy|announce|arch|chat|current|cvs-all|hackers|hardware|ipfw|isp|jobs|mobile|mozilla|net|ports|questions|security|smp|stable) > | formail -i "X-List: freebsd-$MATCH" >> freebsd/$MATCH > > You'll have to modify the recipe if you subscribe to more freebsd lists > than that, or if you don't want them all in a folder called "freebsd". > > Greg > -- > Gregory S. Sutter Information wants to be free. > mailto:gsutter@pobox.com > http://www.pobox.com/~gsutter/ > PGP DSS public key 0x40AE3052 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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