Identifying linux-il messages

Identifying linux-il messages

Moshe Gorohovsky moshe at tkos.co.il
Sun Feb 8 17:52:13 IST 2009


Hi,

Herouth Maoz wrote:
> That's not a message from linux-il. That's a message to which linux-il
> was CCed. The powers in charge of this mailing list encourage people to
> use "Reply-to-all" when answering messages to the list. As a result, you
> get a direct message from the person who is writing (if you are in the
> recipient/sender list of the original message).
> 
> When the list software sees that it has been CCed to a message that was
> sent directly to you, it refrains from sending you its own copy, so you
> get only one copy (although this can be changed).
> 
> Messages that were not addressed to you but come directly from the list
> have many additional headers. Personally, I rely on the List-Id header
> to filter the list.
> 
> However, this strategy means that you cannot filter all messages that
> relate to the list. Only the ones that were not addressed to you.
> Discussions in which you have involved yourself will end up in your
> inbox. For some reason, the list owners consider this to be a GOOD
> thing. I consider it to be very annoying, but I have no say in the
> matter...
> 
> Herouth
> 

Thanks

mmm... I think, I found a way to put these linux-il-related messages to
a separate folder:

Define a filter that moves all messages with List-Id header or with CC
header that contain 'linux-il' to the folder. Just thought this might be
help. Note ORed headers :)

- Moshe

> Quoting Moshe Gorohovsky <moshe at tkos.co.il>:
> 
>> Hi All,
>>
>> How do I identify linux-il messages?
>>
>> In full message source, I see only one header that mentions linux-il:
>>   CC: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
>> No other header mentions linux-il.
> 
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