OFFTOPIC Re: [Mailman-Users] Archive URL in postings (2.1b3)

[Chuq Von Rospach]

On Tuesday, October 29, 2002, at 10:24  AM, G. Armour Van Horn wrote:

> Gosh, I get a lot of mail here that doesn't have anything resembling a 
> List-ID
> header, and I don't recall every seeing the filter settings for my 
> mail software
> (Eudora and NS Messenger) that offered to filter on that header, so I 
> can't
> accept your contention that filtering on other fields is "incorrect."

Point taken. If list-ID exists, it is what you should use to filter 
list mail on. not all list servers support list-ID yet, but the right 
answer is to encourage them to follow the standards, and you should.

> That is the same as my saying that the nickname derived from Charles 
> is "Chuck"
> and that "Chuq" is wrong.
>

Of course, some folks have, in fact, tried to have that discussion with 
me... Not that it worked.


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