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[Warren Block]

On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote:
>> Warren Block wrote:
>>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Brian wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The fact that each mailing list exists as list at freebsd.org and 
>>>> freebsd-list at freebsd.org makes me need to make 2 filters for each list I 
>>>> subscribe to.  Can I suggest that if this is going to continue, that the 
>>>> server shows one format for all the messages that go out?
>>> 
>>> Filtering on the List-Id header works.
>>> 
>> I know I can also do from contains list at freebsd.org, do we really expect 
>> all users to deal with this duplicity?
>
> Okay, I see what you're saying.  But it's not a duplicate if you just check 
> for "From contains questions at freebsd.org", because that matches both 
> "freebsd-questions at freebsd.org" and "questions at freebsd.org".
>
> What I'm saying is that all messages from the list will have a unique List-Id 
> header.  For example:
>
> List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
>
> You can probably do something like
>
>    List-Id contains questions at freebsd.org

Oops, a dot, not an @ in the actual list ID.  That should be

      List-Id contains freebsd-questions.freebsd.org

> But I don't use Thunderbird enough to know for sure.

I leave that for emphasis.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA