Re: Email subject line

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Thu, 16 Sep 1999 15:55:16 +0200


Hello,

> I am a new comer to this email list and presumably I should shut up for
> a while. But this is really a traffic email-list and I got about 100
> emails everyday, which stuffed my mailbox and made it very hard for me
> to read other kinds of emails--emails from friends, department activities,
> etc.
>
> I have a little suggestion as to the email subject line being sent out
> by the email list server program. Can we add something like [LK] in front
> of every email subject line? LK stands for Linux Kernel. I was in several
> other email list before which has high traffic too. They did something
> like this and it was very neat.
>
> This amount of traffic almost scared the hell out of me and it
> surely stoped some people from joining us. So hope my suggestions can be
> adopted.

Why not set up procmail filtering based on the `Sender' header instead?
My .procmailrc contains:

:0
*Sender: owner-linux-kernel@
Mail/kernel_list

Have a nice fortnight

-- 
Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth
"Everything counts in large amounts." -- Depeche Mode

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