On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 14:01 +0800, Patrick Nagel wrote:
On 2010-03-05 07:49, Karsten Bräckelmann wrote:
I don't recall any, other than plain refusal to use a dedicated folder, rather than dumping it all into the Inbox...
IMO, Michael M. Slusarz had a valid reason:
Frankly, I disagree. I do receive legit private messages, forked off of an on-list thread. From various mailing-lists. I would not want them to be filtered into a dedicated list folder. For that reason, Subject based filtering is wrong, and the proper mailing-list headers do a perfect job here.
"[...] a common situation (at least for me) is someone who replies directly to your message from a list instead of to the list address. This will most likely cause that message to end up in your INBOX rather than being filtered into the appropriate mailing list mailbox. Having
It is an off-list reply. It doesn't belong in the list folder.
I'm ok with both ways, but given that there is a considerable amount of opposition, I think Timo's decision to keep it as it is will work best.
Well, I'd prefer to drop the Subject tagging. But this decision isn't my call on this list. :)
If it bugs me enough, I can always drop it locally. The procmail recipe to accomplish that was the important point of my previous post. I didn't argue about the tagging itself.
guenther
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