Filtering on List-Id (was Re: Administrivia: Subject line tagging)

[Derek Martin]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 09:44:01AM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
> There's another way to prevent two replies.  Use an invalid email
> address.  I wonder wh you even bother with this procmail rule as
> you're never going to get private replies from your postings on the
> list.....

Presumably you don't mean duplicate-filtering rules, but you mean this
one:

> >   :0
> >   * (gnhlug|discuss).*@.*(gnhlug|blu)
> >   folders/Linux

There are several reasons.  First and foremost, it's because that's
the rule I've had in place for a fairly long time, and there was no
reason to change it.  It still does the same thing just as
effectively.  Secondly, if someone sends me mail related to GNHLUG,
and this can be determined by the presence of the name or of a
relevant address in the headers, I want the mail filtered into the
same folder as the mailing list posts.  Finally, not all list
management software includes all the same headers on administrative
mail as on message posts.  I'm not sure if mailman falls into that
category, but fortunately I never really need to know.  This rule does
what I want, regardless.

In any event, most users /don't/ use invalid addresses, and this rule
(or something like it) could be very handy for them.  I offered it in
my previous post in case someone found it useful...

-- 
Derek D. Martin    http://www.pizzashack.org/   GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02
-=-=-=-=-
This message is posted from an invalid address.  Replying to it will result in
undeliverable mail.  Sorry for the inconvenience.  Thank the spammers.