Re: OT mozilla filter to keep my debian mail list organized

[Aryan Ameri <a.ameri@linuxiran.org>]

On Thursday 12 June 2003 19:18, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Aryan Ameri (a.ameri@linuxiran.org) [030612 05:24]:
> > On Thursday 12 June 2003 02:22, Jeff Ali wrote:
> > > I didn't realize I was joining such a cool and active list so now
> > > I must find a way to keep the emails organized.
> > >
> > > Can someone tell me how to set up a simple filter in mozilla so
> > > that all the mail I receive from debian-users list gets put in a
> > > folder. I was going to set up the filter based on from or subject
> > > but i don't see anything to base it on.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Haven't used Mozilla. But in KMail, I setup a filter based on TO,
> > and it pretty much filters 99.99% of the mails, and puts them into
> > a specific folder.
> >
> > You should setup your email program, to filter mails, which are
> > addressed to the followings:
> >
> > debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > debian-user-digest@lists.debian.org
> > debian-user-digest@list.debian.org
> > debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net
>
> Heh!  Filtering on TO the list address and _my_ address gets 99.99%
> of this list traffic?  Maybe this is a sign I should take a break for
> a little while!
>
> Really, like others have said, you should be using the X-Mailing-List
> header to sort debian lists.

To troll, or not to troll.... This is the question.  

When Collin Watson mentioned in a follow-up, that filtering on 
X-Mailing-List is in fact better than filtering on To, I agreed and 
admitted that it seems I have to change my filters.

Thank you for reading all my messages in a tread, before replying to 
them.

Cheers

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Aryan Ameri