Re: netiquette: CCing on lists
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 05:57:42AM -0800, moseley@hank.org wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 01:14:15AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 02:03:05PM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> > > Most of the people who have this problem, I believe, have the
> > > technical ability to setup such a filter, and for reasons that I don't
> > > understand choose not to do so and instead depend upon the charity of
> > > the mailing list posters to cater to their reply whims. This, to me,
> > > seems silly, but as I said, there's obviously something there that I'm
> > > not understanding.
> >
> > Here's my reason for disliking this approach. If a mail is sent to both
> > me and a mailing list, it's very likely that the one sent directly to me
> > will get there first, since it doesn't incur list processing delays, and
> > therefore the direct copy is the one that the filter will usually keep.
> > Thus, such a duplicates filter does precisely the wrong thing: I want
> > all the list traffic to end up in the list mailbox, not in my inbox!
>
> Oh, interesting. Not only do I have duplicate filters, my filters still
> see that it was for debian-user and place it in the correct mail box.
> Unless someone bcc's debian-user.
>
> So I can see if you had setup your own "mail filter system" based on
> mail only coming from the list server then CC's would break your setup.
See the other half of my post about the value of ccs to draw my
attention to something. :) I'm definitely convinced that X-Mailing-List:
or the equivalent is the right way to filter a mailing list; that kind
of filtering should, IMHO, be based on the envelope rather than the To:
and Cc: headers.
DEBLISTS=announce|devel|devel-announce|release|policy|private|perl|boot|user|testing|mentors|qa|qa-packages|wnpp|legal|debbugs|debbugs-cvs|lint-maint|ssh|l10n-english|www|project|glibc|bugs-rc|powerpc
:0:
* $^X-Mailing-List: <debian-($DEBLISTS)@lists\\.debian\\.org>
* ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-\/[^@]+
debian/$MATCH
(I'm not subscribed to quite all of those lists, but I do read most of
them ...)
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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