Great Circle Associates Firewalls
(August 1995)
 

Indexed By Date: [Previous] [Next] Indexed By Thread: [Previous] [Next]

Subject: Re: FIREWALL:Please use word Firewall in subject line
From: David Kovar <kovar @ NDA . COM>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 14:18:10 -0400 (EDT)
To: nabadm @ odo . acdnj . itt . com (set chaos/total)
Cc: firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <95082715083545 @ odo . acdnj . itt . com> from "set chaos/total" at Aug 27, 95 03:08:35 pm

  No, but the "To: " does and you can sort on that....

-David

> Please note that the sender field does NOT contain the word firewalls.  I
> subscribe to many lists and there are some, like this one, where it is
> impossible to filter the mail because the sender field almost contains the
> address of the actual sender, not the list.
> 
> 
> > From:	SMTP%"Brent @
 greatcircle .
 com" 27-AUG-1995 14:38:01.00
> > To:	PAWLUK_JEAN @
 tandem .
 com, firewalls @
 greatcircle .
 com
> > CC:	
> > Subj:	Re: FIREWALL:Please use word Firewall in subject line
> > 
> > At 10:21 AM 8/27/95, PAWLUK_JEAN @
 tandem .
 com wrote:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >Many of the people on this list use mail filters to place incoming mail
> > >into mail folders . I and many others would appreciate everyone who would
> > >use the word FIREWALL in the subject line.  The volume of mail is so large
> > >on this list that it can take hours to read all of the mail on
> > >this subject and having it organized into a folder makes life easier.
> > >Thanks, Jeanne
> > 
> > No, please don't.  There's no need to clutter up the Subject lines even
> > further.  Folks that want to sift Firewalls email off to a separate folder
> > for reading (and I'm one of them) should use a mailer that lets them filter
> > incoming messages (like I do; I use Eudora on a Mac; any message that has a
> > "Sender:" header with the word "firewalls" in it is refiled to a separate
> > Firewalls folder).
> > 
> > Individuals shouldn't try to make the limitations of their mail readers be
> > a problem for everybody else on the list; they should get a better mail
> > reader.
> > 
> > 
> > -Brent
> > 
> 



References:
Indexed By Date Previous: Re: Bug of RISC !!
From: bnowlin @ nyjets . lerc . nasa . gov (Ben Nowlin)
Next: Re: Bug of RISC !!
From: lpierce @ intex . net (S. Lane Pierce)
Indexed By Thread Previous: Re: FIREWALL:Please use word Firewall in subject line
From: nabadm @ odo . acdnj . itt . com (set chaos/total)
Next: Re: FIREWALL:Please use word Firewall in subject line
From: David Carrel <carrel @ cisco . com>

Google
 
Search Internet Search www.greatcircle.com