Re: Request: Anyone using bogus / "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off - Mailing list pgsql-general

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> From: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of A. Kretschmer
> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2007 10:57 AM
> To: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Request: Anyone using bogus /
> "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers, could we please turn them off
>
>
> am  Fri, dem 05.10.2007, um 10:05:32 -0400 mailte Bill
> Bartlett folgendes:
> > Quick request to the group: we have several members who
> include bogus
> > or "humorous" X-Message-Flag headers in their email
> messages.  Could I
> > request that you _please_ turn them off?  Because they come
> through as
>
> Do you mean me?

Not specifically -- yours just happened to be the one that triggered it,
but no, I see this in postings from other people as well.  (Didn't mean
to single you out though.)

> > flagged messages in Outlook,  it throws off my email rules
> processing
> > and the messages end up into the wrong groups.  (With the volume of
>
> This header is a special Outlook-Feature. If this header
> realy make problems in _this_ software, then i think, _this_
> software is broken. But hey, tell news ;-)

See other reply -- I'm not complaining that Outlook is broken but rather
that the misuse of this flag slows down my workflow.  The issue is that
because this flag is useful when used properly (e.g.: for mail rules
like "take all messages flagged for followup and move them to specific
other folders for different types of followup"), having the flag be
added to emails just for the sake of putting in a "humorous" message
just gets in the way.  (I keep needing to go fish the
incorrectly-flagged messages back out of the various followup folders
before I can completely follow the threads in the Postgres listservs.)

> And yes: there are any email-software available, without
> problems. Including Windows.

Hmm ... I still use "Pine" on some of my really old Linux boxes -- does
this count?  (Useful for reading CRON output...)

> > (Yes, I understand people's personal preferences for not liking
> > Windows or Outlook or Microsoft, but that isn't going to change the
> > applications that I need to use for my day-to-day work.
> Feel free to
> > continue
>
> Okay, i like this list and i like the people here. I will try
> to disable this special header line for this and only this
> list (okay, for all postgresql-lists). Let me try, i'm not
> sure how to disable this header-line only for *@postgresql.org.
>
> Please, don't beat me if this header are still in this
> message, the problem is work in progress... i'm not sure if i
> change the config properly.

Yes, it's working properly now.  MUCH thanks!

> Andreas
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