At 05:25 PM 2/24/97 -0700, Dan Lester wrote: >At 06:46 PM 2/24/97 -0500, you wrote: >>One of my users just posed this question/suggestion to me which I must >>agree would be worthwhile. Is there any way to force this behavior now? >>I couldn't think of one, but open to suggestions... >> >>Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> >> >>User's request: >>> Since [xxx-L] is now added to the >>> subject line of every message going through the list, I have started using >>> it with a filter to route my xxx-l traffic (roughly half my total email >>> volume) into a separate mail file. > >I'd have no objection to the behavior he requests....but many of us have >already sorted our mail from lists into folders/files/directories....by >simply doing the same thing on the TO line instead. Just look for the list >name in there and do the same, and it'll work regardless of the subject >line, just like it always has. The "To:" line works sometimes only. It is not reliable. Sometimes the list is in a Cc: or Bcc:, and only some lists rewrite the To: header. It's not even clear to me whether the RFC's permit rewriting the To: header, but that's getting off topic I think. In a Eudora (POP) account, I have yet to come up with a "perfect" algorithm for several lists, since I have no useful "From " or "Return-Path:" header. Plus, one of the big uses for the '[xxx-L]' for those who sign up for it is that it works for low traffic lists *not* sorted into their own folder. They can be spotted by eye, and "sort by subject" gets all the '[xxx-L]' posts together. As for messages with no subject at all--as a list owner myself, I'd actually prefer them to be bounced with a friendly message requesting a subject--but nobody listens to me these days. :-) Check out the "list-header" mailing list: X-List-Subscribe: <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (can you figure that one out?) if you're interested in issues pertaining to headers which might lead to list identification, easy unsubscription, etc. These are being discussed there in view of a possible future RFC. If you have opinions, I'd suggest making them known there. Cheers, Stan