Everything you say is true Mitch, but going back to a comment I made to
Chuq, the slippery slope we are on is that there is no standard way to
filter.
For every elist to which a person subscribes you have to get a few
messages and then determine how best to identify those messages so you
can filter them. What I'm particularly noticing is a trend (in my
opinion overzealous) towards personalization that is eliminating one of
the key distinctions (and the only remaining general test) between
personal email and elist messages.
Certainly a subscriber can still deal with what is happening to them,
I'm really just lamenting how I see it getting harder, unnecessarily.
Perhaps it isn't getting hard enough and so even I'm being overzealous.
Jim
On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 12:09:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mitch Collinsworth <mitch@ccmr.cornell.edu>
To: James M Galvin <galvin@acm.org>
Cc: list-managers@GreatCircle.COM
Subject: Re: elist address or your address in message TO header
> But why I really
> dislike it is because it screws up vacation/out-of-office announcement
> programs, which are not supposed to reply unless the recipient appears
> in the message headers.
Do they include a "Precedence: bulk" header? A good vacation program
will not respond when this is included.
> For me personally it also screws up my email filtering, because the
> first distinction I make is to test whether a message is personal email,
> i.e., addressed directly to me. Elists are just not personal email.
Do they include a "Sender:" header? If so you can filter on this.
-Mitch
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James M. Galvin <galvin@acm.org>
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