Thread: mail list headers

mail list headers

From
Ron Peterson
Date:
Just a nit.

If I ran the world, I would make sure all of the world's mailing lists
only accepted mail in which the list address was contained in either the
To: or Cc: fields.

This ensures it will always be possible to write a simple filter rule
to capture and process mail list messages I recieve.

Prepending text to the beginning of mail list subject lines, like
[GENERAL] also attempts to serve this purpose.  But not as well.  For
example, [GENERAL] is rather, well, general.  Something more specific
would co-opt the majority of the subject line.

Using extra headers (X-something) to capture this information excludes a
number of client side email programs from doing mail filtering.  None that
I use or care about, but just to be PC, I wouldn't recommend doing this
either.

Again, just a nit, that will probably accomplish nothing other than to
ignite a heated discussion about everyone's email pecadillos.

--

-Ron-
https://www.yellowbank.com/


Re: mail list headers

From
"Markus Meyer"
Date:
Should be no problem. All mails come from
pqsql-general-owner@postgresql.org, so that's the perfect match for my rule
(in M$ Outlook --- uuuh).

Regards


Markus


> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-general-owner@postgresql.org]Im Auftrag von Ron Peterson
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Oktober 2001 16:32
> An: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
> Betreff: [GENERAL] mail list headers
>
>
>
> Just a nit.
>
> If I ran the world, I would make sure all of the world's mailing lists
> only accepted mail in which the list address was contained in either the
> To: or Cc: fields.
>
> This ensures it will always be possible to write a simple filter rule
> to capture and process mail list messages I recieve.
>
> Prepending text to the beginning of mail list subject lines, like
> [GENERAL] also attempts to serve this purpose.  But not as well.  For
> example, [GENERAL] is rather, well, general.  Something more specific
> would co-opt the majority of the subject line.
>
> Using extra headers (X-something) to capture this information excludes a
> number of client side email programs from doing mail filtering.  None that
> I use or care about, but just to be PC, I wouldn't recommend doing this
> either.
>
> Again, just a nit, that will probably accomplish nothing other than to
> ignite a heated discussion about everyone's email pecadillos.
>
> --
>
> -Ron-
> https://www.yellowbank.com/
>
>
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