Re: Mail identification

[Edward Cherlin <cherlin@SNOWCREST.NET>]

Somebody (my apologies) wrote:
>*Lojban*
>
>As a newbie who has been here less than a week, I find that I tend to
>agree with Frank <Frank.Mayer@darmstadt.netsurf.de> that some systematic
>method of identifying mail from the list would be helpful.
>
>Bob <lojbab@ACCESS.DIGEX.NET> mentioned that he filtered on the basis of
>the FROM line in the header. That solution does not work for me, as his
>was the only message I've received that had anything identifying lojban
>in the FROM line. I found that the SENDER line has the listserver
>identifier, but I don't normally see that line as I have my reader
>(Netscape) set for abbreviated headers. I suppose the solution in my
>case is to buckle down and learn how to use procmail to presort my
>incoming mail, but for the non-UNIX users this probably is not an
>alternative.
[snip]

I use Eudora Pro, which shows me the Sender line and allows me to filter
based on it. The result is that all of my Lojban mail is labeled, colored,
and sorted together. If I wanted to, I could have it all moved to another
folder.


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