On Sun, 2006-08-13 at 12:58 -0500, Thomas w. Cranston wrote: > Instead of hundres or thousands of people having to google, or go > somewhere, it makes more sense to have an identifier in the sender > field. For example these identifiers appear in the subject fields of > most forums. Some mailing lists do that. We have decided not to do that on ours. The issue will not be revisited, period. > You may have been posting for years, but don't assume that everyone > getting your messages has been associated with the group for very long. > Here are a few examples of identifiers in the subject field from groupes > I belong to: > > [GWLUG] OT: Death Star speaker - You have to see it to believe it! > [ctl-linux] Bash test > [LPJC-jobs] Johnson Space Center Job Fair August 1-3 - Clear Lake, TX > > All I have to do is look for the identifier, and know that the message > is very probably not bogus. Understood. You would also be able to tell the same thing if you used a rule or filter in your email program to put messages with certain values in separate folders. For example, any email you receive that includes a List-Id: field with "fedora-docs-list@xxxxxxxxxx" in it, is not spam. It is a message from this list. Make that filter in your email client, and you will be on the road to spam-free enjoyment of this list. > I get messages from lots of folks in these groupes. I am not familiar > with all of them. Some of them are new. > > I know it's not fool proof, but it works for me. That's great. You can have it work even better by taking the above recommendations. -- Paul W. Frields, RHCE http://paul.frields.org/ gpg fingerprint: 3DA6 A0AC 6D58 FEC4 0233 5906 ACDB C937 BD11 3717 Fedora Project Board: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Board Fedora Docs Project: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DocsProject
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