Arcady Genkin wrote:
> Jonathan Masters <mastersj@periscope-systems.freeserve.co.uk> writes:
>
> > I can't see the trees behind my neighbour's house, any chance he can knock
> > it down? The point? Sort your messages by source address not by header,
> > don't expect others tochange for you, be adaptive.
>
> Just wondering what you mean by source address -- "From" address? Are
> you proposing I put rules for every user on the mailing list into my
> filters?
>
> As to your analogy, a mailing list is not like a house made of rock --
> it's usually a lot less painful configure it to include some kind of
> identification into a header. All other mailing lists I'm on do.
>
> > > I'd like to bitch a little bit. ;^) I'm subscribed to many a mailing
> > > list, so I sort my mail by contents of its headers. Now, having a look
> > > at the headers of the mailings from this list, I just see no
> > > distinctive property to sort it by. Any chance of inserting
> > > "X-mailing-list" or anything of the kind?
> > >
> > > I had a rule to sort by destination address
> > > "abiword-user@abisource.com" just to discover that some messages are
> > > destined to "abiword-user@sourcegear.com". Just after I added that
> > > address to my filters setup, a message came in for
> > > "abiword-user@postman.sourcegear.com"... Just how many other aliases
> > > are there?
>
> --
> Arcady Genkin
> "... without money one gets nothing in this world, not even a certificate
> of eternal blessedness in the other world..." (S. Kierkegaard)
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"Upon this rock I will build my church,
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it".
-- Matthew 16, 17-18