On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 02:11:26PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > > On Wed 20, Jan'10 at 10:09 AM +0000, Chris G wrote: > > >You need to set up an alias for the list in order to be able to use a > > >shorted name for it when composing new mail. > > > > Yeah, I just never bothered with that step since I usually only > > reply to lists. > > > > >I have a simple text file where I keep a list of all the mailing lists > > >... > > >All this means that when I subscribe to a new mailing list I just add > > >it to the text file rather than having to edit three or four different > > >places. > > > > Brilliant bit with the scripts. I use some scripts to automatically > > generate some other bits of my muttrc, but didn't think of this way. > > Thanks! > > I can upload/attach the scripts if anyone is interested, getAliases.py > and getLists.py are trivial but there's a bit more to the mail > filtering one.
Hi Chris, What a nice idea; I'd love to see those scripts. I'm just now learning Python so the more trivial, the better... :-) Tom -- Tom Baker <tba...@tbaker.de>
