20 Mar
2002
20 Mar
'02
2:21 a.m.
Rumor has it that Dan Wright may have mentioned these words:
Er, this might be a little late...but...
There's been one really good suggestion made that everyone seems to have
glossed over: put something like "[OL]" before any message coming from an
un-subscribed address. That's all! You can make your e-mail client filter
that! you can make procmail filter that! If any off-list message was simply
MARKED, then each of us could deal with off-list stuff in our own way!
Personally, I don't care about it. Everything from classiccmp gets sent into
it's own little mailbox by procmail anyway -- hence why I'm replying to this
NOW, when I saw 300 new messages after the weekend I didn't have time to do
anything with it :) however, putting a marker like this on any off-list
message requires little work, avoids the possible problem of losing equipment
because someone who's about to thrown out that pdp-11 can't post a message,
and lets each list subscriber deal with such mail in any way he or she
wishes...
One small problem with that: If the person's not subscribed to the list,
how do they know they're supposed to put an '[OL]' in the subject? [[ That,
and then the "new flame wars" - 42 list members flaming some poor soul
because he honestly forgot to type [OL] in the subject before he hit
"Send"... ]]
unless - if the list manager software that Jay uses has the ability to
differentiate between on-list & off-list posters, maybe a small
configuration change could be made to prepend an '[OL] ' to the subject
coming in from any off-list email address automatically? That might work...
but to me that would only be a solution if it doesn't cause any extra work
for Jay.
I'd also like to say that I think Jay does a fine
job managing the list and
I'm grateful to him for doing so. Without him we wouldn't have a list, and
that's worse then a little spam, isn't it?
Most definately.
Just my $0.000000002 worth, and it ain't worth that...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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