Re: [TechEmbedBSD] Subject format for tech-embed BSD

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, H. Johnson wrote:

> Not all users want to be sophisticated with respect to the type of mail 
> client / filter software they use, just to handle special, behind the times, 
> geeky cases such as this.  I am using Thunderbird, which in every situation 
> but filtering this lists mail, does the job well.

        Thunderbird should filter posts to this list fine by adding a rule
        for matching mail with 'Sender: tech-embed-owner%NetBSD.org@localhost'.

> Maybe it's time to upgrade things a bit on the server side.

        There are sixteen tech-* lists at netbsd.org, and close to 100
        others. Your suggestion would involve every post to any list to
        be prefixed with something like the list name? eg:
        TechRepositoryBSD or PortEws4800mipsBSD ? But if another BSD
        has a similar list that would conflict, so you would need to
        have TechEmbedNetBSD and TechRepositoryNetBSD.

        If this was done (and personally I would prefer it not), I would
        have to add some filter on my end to take the prefix *out*, as
        I would find it *very* annoying.

        I definitely would not regard the current situation as "special,
        behind the times", but "normal".


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