Subject: header issues- die! die! die!
From: Jonathan Mergy (mergy@natus.com)
Date: Wed Aug 08 2001 - 16:05:09 MDT
Geez enough already -
yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com writes:
>On Wednesday 08 August 2001 03:16 pm, Christopher Murtagh wrote:
>> On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, michael wrote:
>> >"[YDL] re: [YDL] re: [YDL] ad infinitum". I'm in favor if that will
>not
>> >happen.
>
>> And this is precisely the reason why many people would rather not have
>> the subject changed.
>
>This is trivial to prevent (in Perl):
>
>unless( $subject =~ /\[YDL\]/ ) {$subject = "[YDL] $subject";}
>
>I could get even fancier, so that all internal '[YDL] ' are removed
>and then [YDL] is prepended (to keep the list tag at the beginning)-- but
>that might take two or three lines of code. :)
>
>Given that it's more efficient to do this on the list-server than to
>distribute the task to multiple clients, I'd rather see it done there.
>Plus,
>I have a feeling the list-server is already built to do this, my email
>client
>is not.
>
>> I really don't see all the fuss. Just about any email client will allow
>> you to filter email by any recipient address. I simply told PINE (*my*
>> favorite email client) to take any email with a recipient that matched
>> 'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com' to a folder called
>yellowdog.
>
>I'm one of those people, like Graham, who likes to have a single inbox.
>It's
>easier to keep track of what's incoming and what's been dealt with and
>deemed
>archival quality.
>
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jonathan mergy
mergy@natus.com
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