Re: [Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already!

["Rask Ingemann Lambertsen" <rask at kampsax dot k-net dot dk>]

Den 01-Feb-99 07:08:31 skrev Paul Derbyshire fĝlgende om "[Meta] Enough of the "egcs.cygnus.com" already!":
> Grr. I subscribe to the EGCS mailing list at egcs.cygnus.com and set a mail
> filter to filter anything with a To: or Cc: containing
> "egcs@egcs.cygnus.com" into an 'egcs' folder, figuring that it isn't likely
> that anyone would BCc: to the list and confound the filter.

   Mail sorting based on To:, Cc: or Bcc: headers hasn't ever worked, doesn't
work, and won't ever work. This doesn't seem to stop people from trying to do
so anyway. :-(

> Trouble is, it seems you can post to the list using just "egcs@cygnus.com",
> since I keep finding a shitload of egcs mail in my main Inbox with this on
> the Cc: line!

   Good example of why it hasn't ever worked, doesn't work and won't ever work.

   Searching for the

	Delivered-To: mailing list egcs@egcs.cygnus.com

header does work. Always. Reliably.

   Since it is quite normal for list subscribers of today not to know how
how do set up their mail readers, perhaps it should be mentioned somewhere
that this header appears in all egcs mailing list mail, so as to at least
provide the initial clue.

Regards,

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