Re: [debian-user] [OT] Subject Confusion

[bob@proulx.com (Bob Proulx)]

Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote:
> I get hundreds of email a day including email from the Debian List.

I get literally thousands...

> Nearly all other Linux lists use square brackets to enclose a meaningful 
> word for the list identification. Most everyone in the world uses "Re", 
> "Re ", or "Re:" which is fine when the subject is prefixed with "[List-ID]".

No, no, no let's not start up this discussion again!  These
discussions frequently go for days with hundreds of replies.  Please
read the archives for past discussions.

Please let this topic die.

> I don't seem to have a way of filtering the Debian List email from
> non Debian email because of this insistence of the Debian List to
> use "Re" at the beginning of the subject.

Use the X-Mailing-List: header.  Here is a procmail rule for example
that files into subfolders.

  :0
  * ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-[-a-zA-Z0-9]+@lists.debian.org>
  * ^X-Mailing-List: <debian-\/[-a-zA-Z0-9]+
  $MAILDIR/Lists/debian/$MATCH/

> insistence of the Debian List to use "Re" at the beginning of the
> subject

The "Re:" has nothing to do with Debian mailing lists.  That is added
by the poster's mail client.  It is the standard reply subject
modification.  Almost all english speaking mailer clients do this.
Other languages have other conventions.

Bob