On 20 January 1998, john@??? proclaimed:
> > woods@??? said:
> > } Since Exim's list handler is currently polluting the messages posted
> > } to it in several ways (eg. the horrid "[EXIM]" in the subject, and the
> > } only slightly less horrid pseudo-signature on the tail),
>
> "Horrid"? I think its Great.
>
> With the "[EXIM]" marker, I can scan my incoming box, often 50-60
> messages deep, and locate more critical email before taking the plunge
> to read the extremely verbose set of [EXIM] messages.
>
> (Since the EXIM incoming email is vast these days, I have even thought
> about filtering all EXIM email into a digest that I can zip through
> once a week ... The [EXIM] marker would make this task easy ...)
Right. Hopefully I will say this for several people, as it's noise and
doesn't really belong on the exim list as such.
There already is a marker inside every message, which is far easier for
automated processes to pick up on. The To: line.
To be quite frank, you shouldn't have everything coming into your inbox
anyway. Use a tool like procmail, slocal, elm's filter and so on to
automatically split your mail up into folders based on the list. You'll
find it so useful, you'll wonder how you lived without it.
Oh, and the traffic on this list isn't that great compared to some...
> Nigel.Metheringham@??? said:
> > I guess that unless and until someone else takes over the list, you'll
> > have to live with my prejudices.... although I am open to argument in
> > general.
>
> I think we all owe Nigel a very loud THANK YOU for taking the time
> to host/maintain www.exim.org, run this list, and for dealing with
> us in general. What kind of salary are we paying you again, Nigel?
>
> We really do owe Nigel, and Phil, big time.
I agree with that!
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