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offtopic, about subject prefix

From
"Fernando Moreno"
Date:
Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:

Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

Are messages without this prefix likely to be ignored by automatic filters or something like that?

Thanks in advance.

Re: offtopic, about subject prefix

From
brian
Date:
Fernando Moreno wrote:
> Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:
>
> Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

The prefix is added by the mailing list software. It's there so that
people subscribed to multiple pgsql-* lists can easily distinguish them.
There's no need to include it in your messages.

b

Re: offtopic, about subject prefix

From
"Fernando Moreno"
Date:
2008/9/3 brian <brian@zijn-digital.com>
Fernando Moreno wrote:
Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:

Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

The prefix is added by the mailing list software. It's there so that people subscribed to multiple pgsql-* lists can easily distinguish them. There's no need to include it in your messages.

b


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Re: offtopic, about subject prefix

From
Michelle Konzack
Date:
Am 2008-09-03 13:33:05, schrieb Fernando Moreno:
> Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:
>
> Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

No it is not since the PostgreQL Lists can be filtered perfectly with:

----[ /usr/share/tdtools-procmail/ML_pgsql ]----------------------------
<snip>
  :0
  * ^X-Mailing-List:.*pgsql-\/[-a-zA-Z0-9].*
  {
    TMPVAR=${MATCH}
    :0
    .ML_pgsql.${TMPVAR}/
  }
  #---------------------------------------------------------------------
  :0
  * ^List-Post:.*mailto:[-.@a-zA-Z0-9]+>
  * ^List-Post:.*mailto:\/[-.@a-zA-Z0-9]+
  {
    TMPVAR=`echo "${MATCH}" |tr '.' '_' |sed 'y|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ|abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz|'`
    :0
    .ML_pgsql.${TMPVAR}/
  }
<snip>
------------------------------------------------------------------------


> Are messages without this prefix likely to be ignored by automatic filters
> or something like that?


Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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Re: offtopic, about subject prefix

From
"Douglas McNaught"
Date:
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Michelle Konzack
<linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> wrote:
> Am 2008-09-03 13:33:05, schrieb Fernando Moreno:
>> Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:
>>
>> Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?
>
> No it is not since the PostgreQL Lists can be filtered perfectly with:
>
> ----[ /usr/share/tdtools-procmail/ML_pgsql ]----------------------------

A lot of people don't have a way to run procmail and have crappy
mailers that can't filter on arbitrary headers.  I guess we're trying
to be nice to them.

-Doug