On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 04:12:14AM +0000, Scalar wrote: > Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few > letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the > list from other email?
Personally, I don't care one way or the other, but it's something I've seen (heatedly) discussed here before. It's technically feasible, but Debian will be bought out by Microsoft before it happens. > I use pine over telnet in 25x80 mode for email, and it is > frequently impossible to tell listserv messages from normal > email. Do you have access to procmail or a similar filtering mechanism on the machine which stores your mail? The standard way of dealing with this problem is to use procmail, etc. to filter each list into a separate mailbox, so you don't have to rely on subject lines to identify list messages. (Side note: Have you considered using ssh instead of telnet? The telnet protocol sends your password and all your data in plaintext, making them trivial for anyone else on the same network to intercept and read them.) -- The freedoms that we enjoy presently are the most important victories of the White Hats over the past several millennia, and it is vitally important that we don't give them up now, only because we are frightened. - Eolake Stobblehouse (http://stobblehouse.com/text/battle.html) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
