JOE Conner wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
Over the last few days I've noticed an increase in the number of replies
which will not be seen by the questioner because the questioner is not
subscribed to this list and the reply has not been sent explicitly to the
questioner.
Therefore it seems to be time once again to remind folk answering
questions
in this list that if an unsubscribed person asks a question s/he will
*not*
see the reply unless his/her e-mail address is explicitly included in its
To:, cc: or bcc: list.
The *only* way to tell the status of the questioner is to look at the
"Delivered To:" header(s) of the question. The user is *subscribed* if
and
only if there is *no* header saying "Delivered-To: moderator for
[email protected]". The user is *unsubscribed* if such a header does
exist.
Some mail readers (notably Thunderbird and notably *not* Outlook Express)
can be configured to "filter" on the "Delivered To:" header and, thus,
to be
able *automatically* to highlight/flag messages from unsubscribed
posters.
This makes life easier. Dotan Cohen's recent request would make life
*much*
easier but ...
As far as I can tell most *news* readers can't filter on the
"Delivered To:"
header. This makes life harder for people reading this list (and
wishing to
reply) via Gmane.
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
Please reply *only* to [email protected]
I use Thunderbird, but I have never figured out how to create a filter
such as you describe. Would you be kind enough to suggest how this
filter should be set up?
Thanks.
Joe Conner, Poulsbo, WA USA
20090208 1655 GMT-5
Look at the message source.
This one:
Reply-To: [email protected]
Delivered-To: mailing list [email protected]
Delivered-To: moderator for [email protected]
was sent by the moderator.
This one (which is the message Im responding to)
has this:
Delivered-To: mailing list [email protected]
Create a new filter. In the "incoming messsages" section click on the
last entry : Customize. Write in "Delivered-To" without the quotes.
Click ok. Now in the filter select Delivered-To and contains and in the
next field write in "moderator for". In the bottom section what I do is
mark these with a different color so I know.
Wade
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