It does work as you suggest. But I had personal email today from two people with Elecraft in their header ;-) and it went to the Elecraft folder rather than my personal inbox because the To: field is [EMAIL PROTECTED] rather than Elecraft Discussion List. Before I filtered on "Elecraft in the header except when sent directly to you".
It is just less versatile. Bob -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mike S Sent: Monday, August 02, 2004 10:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Elecraft Discussion List Subject: [Elecraft] Filtering list traffic properly At 11:28 PM 8/1/2004, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote... >I have Outlook set to put anything with [Elecraft] in the subject line into >the "Elecraft" message folder. That word is consistent, no matter what >changes in the address fields. Consistent, yes. It is also ambiguous. It does not uniquely identify a message as coming from the list. If someone does a private (off-list) reply to one of your messages, a filter built on such a criteria will end up sorting it in with list traffic. I've seen a few embarrassing messages appear on lists as a result of this (responses to private messages ending up on a list). There is a unique header which is present on all messages coming from the list server used by Elecraft, which has been available since at least 2001: "List-Id: Elecraft Discussion List <elecraft.mailman.qth.net>" Depending upon your MUA, "Elecraft" in header "List-Id: or "List-Id: Elecraft" in headers should be sufficient to unambiguously identify a message as coming from this discussion list. I don't know if Elecraft has other lists (a beta tester one, perhaps), but if so, a longer string may be needed to uniquely identify each for anyone on multiple lists. For MS Lookout, a rule such as "Apply this rule after the message arrives with List-ID: Elecraft in the message header" should work. Mike _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
