Paul Johnson wrote:
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 03:32 pm, John Hasler wrote:Please stop changing the subject of this thread. It makes it hard to keep it killfiled.Filter smarter, not harder. Most email filters out there these days have the concept of threads. If you use procmail, check out the message IDs compared to References or In-Reply-To headers. Subject lines aren't supposed to keep track of thread, that's what In-Reply-To is for.
List subscribers shouldn't have to clean religious/political flamebait (& flames) from the messages they receive. To have to do this means that there are people on the list who are perfectly prepared to send out messages containing content that is essentially equivalent to the lowest-common-denominator advertisements for drugs, porn, phishing scams, hot stock tips, whatever. Putting "OT", "Off Topic", "Way off topic" etc. in the subject title doesn't even begin to justify that kind of poor listizenship.