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(a)redhat.com" 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.
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