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

Stonewall Ballard sb.list at sb.org
Tue Oct 29 20:26:50 CET 2002


On 10/29/02 1:38 PM, "Jay Sekora" <jay at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

> Back to filtering, I filter lots of my mailing lists into separate
> folders, but I only do so if my own address doesn't appear in the
> destination headers, because in that case I consider the message addressed
> to me as an individual as well as to the list, and I want it to end
> up in the place where mail-addressed-to-me-as-an-individual goes.
> 
> With this change that distinction is lost.  I can no longer tell (except
> by seeing how many copies of a message I got, which may break in other
> ways if a message is sent to multiple lists) whether I was singled out
> as a particular more-interested recipient of a message, or if I got it
> only because I'm subscribed to a list.

Can't you filter on messages with you in the To: line and NOT List-Id:? That
would identify all non-list messages to you.

 - Stoney




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