Identifying linux-il messages

[Ira Abramov]

Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sun, 08 Feb:
>
> Personally, I have no objection to putting the matter up for a vote again.
>

open, anonymous poll on some website? works for me. let's count the
methods to consider, and vote on each. I say multiple choice, because
some people are accomodating :-)

Have Ely enforce it by:
* reply-to
* tag the subject
* use the mutt-supported headers
* hack the list server to allow any of the above as a personal setting
for each subscriber (why is it not a built-in feature?!)
* let each reader pick his way.

I am sure most people would be annoyed by most of the above, and since
this list IS mostly about the hacks and kluges of life with FOSS - I do
my own filtering and suggest you do the same. Here are some ideas:

* Sub, post and reply with a unique address (like I do, but it may not be
         conveniant with some mail clients)
   * qmail allows dash extensions and filters easely
   * postfix, sendmail (with switch), Gmail and others alow "plus"
         extensions

* Filter on list headers, TO or CC headers, or envelope sender regex.
    (not an option with many clients)

* Ob: Social hacking - start adding XIL or [XIL] to every post and reply
  here, and see if it catches on, forcing the listmaster to add it
  permanently :-)

(I filter on envelope recipient and headers, and I remove subject tags
with SED once they are ready to be delivered to the mbox (to save
terminal realestate), knowing the list server will add them again to my
posts)

Yay text filters :-)

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