Cypher:Subject naming- SUMMARY

[Jim C]

Ok, here's a summary of replies regarding sorting of mail by To: fields,
or more in general, grouping all list mail together by mailing list.
Thanx to all who responded. As you can see, there are a variety of ways
to approach this problem.
All of these replys were posted to Cypherpunks already, so re-posting
is kosher.

I've cut out the extra header stuff and the PGP signatures, and edited
the messages for brevity.

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From: nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall)
Subject: Re: Cypher: Subject naming proposal
To: collins at socrates.umd.edu (Jim C)
Cc: cypherpunks at toad.com

>Can I suggest that any messages posted to cypherpunks start with "Cypher:"
>in the subject line? The mail from this list is getting mixed in with all
>my other mail, cause my newsreader (elm) can't sort on "To:" fields.
>       Does anyone else have this problem? Does this idea seem reasonable?
>JIm C.

     I use the following .forward file to make slocal "sort" my mail based
upon the contents of the .maildelivery file below.

-- $HOME/.forward --
| /usr/lib/mh/slocal -user nowhere
<EOF>

     You should use something like the following .maildelivery file to
tell slocal where to put the messages.

-- $HOME/.maildelivery --
#
# field "pattern" action "command"
#
To "cypherpunks at toad.com" file ? Mail/cypherpunks

     This will file messages directed to cypherpunks to a file in your
Elm mail directory, but leave all other messages untouched.  You have
to then choose the folder "=cypherpunks" to read those messages.

     NOTE:  You need to change the path of slocal to the appropriate
path for your system.  You can find it with the whereis -b command or
the find utility.  Am I forgetting anything?

Chael Hall

--
Chael Hall
nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu, 00CCHALL at BSUVC.BSU.EDU
(317) 285-3648 after 5 pm EST

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From: Crys Rides <crys at cave.tcp.COM>
Subject: Re: Cypher: Subject naming proposal


>>>>> On Thu, 18 Mar 93 10:39:46 EST, nowhere at bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Chael Hall) said:

Hall>     I use the following .forward file to make slocal "sort" my mail based
Hall> upon the contents of the .maildelivery file below.

[snip]

Hall>      NOTE:  You need to change the path of slocal to the appropriate
Hall> path for your system.  You can find it with the whereis -b command or
Hall> the find utility.  Am I forgetting anything?

Erm, only that this apparently appears to pretty much _require_ switching
mailreaders to MH.  A more transparent solution can be achieved with the
'procmail' package, available from any comp.sources.misc archive.  This
package allows rule-based filtering on message content, size, and other
factors, and can be installed workably with most mailreaders to my
knowledge, without requiring much effort.

Crys Rides

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>From wimsey.bc.ca!markh at wimsey.com Thu Mar 18 13:: Cypher: Subject naming propos
al

There's a program called "filter" (which I think is part of the elm
distribution) that I use to automatically route messages from different
mailing lists to separate folders, which can then be read at leisure.
Very handy!

derek

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To: Brad Huntting <huntting at glarp.com>, Jim C <collins at socrates.umd.edu>
Subject: Re: Cypher: Subject naming proposal
Cc: cypherpunks at toad.com

mush will also allow filtering based on more or less whatever
you want (e.g. To: fields).

Mark
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Mark Henderson
markh at wimsey.bc.ca