META: Adding a list indicator for mailing list msgs

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sun Aug 18 2002 - 06:53:10 MDT


I'd be against it if it makes the subject lines any longer.
Topic changing subjects already get so long that they may
truncate the "was:" subject in some mail readers so you
lose the evolution of a thread.

Using PROCMAIL, the following works fine for me:

# Dump ExI Mail into ExI folder
:0:
* $ ${SENDER}owner-extropians@extropy.org
| ${FORMAIL} -A"X-Folder: ExI" >>${MAILDIR}/ExI

Don't know if Outlook allows one to sort by sender or not.
(But there again one shouldn't be using a spawn of the devil
program like Outlook *anyway*...).

The only messages I've seen this not work for are those that
seem to be posted from the bulliten board or those that are
resent for non-list members. But those are very low volume.

If there is some meta-tag header class other than the Subject:
line that could be modified then I don't care either way.

Robert



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