Re: List confusion

["Kirk Messinger" <woodnboats@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, Roger, I'm not particularly savvy re. OE.  I started out with AOL
years ago, and it stunted my growth!  I'll work my way through OE's options
and see if I can get it to work.

TNX,

Kirk

----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Burton West" <roger@firedrake.org>
To: <orbiter@firedrake.org>
Sent: Thursday, 04 April, 2002 10:24
Subject: Re: List confusion


> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 10:08:51AM -0700, Kirk Messinger wrote:
>
> >Would it be possible to set up the Orbiter list in such a way?  At least
I
> >think it was done at the list level.
>
> I'd very much rather not do this. Each list message already contains in
> the headers "X-Mailing-List: orbiter@firedrake.org", and any mail
> client capable of filtering should surely be able to use this as a
> filtering criterion; failing that, how about filtering on messages
> addressed To: or Cc: orbiter@firedrake.org? I find it hard to beleive
> (though I no longer use Windows except for games) that an email package
> capable of filtering should have it implemented in such a way as only
> to be able to filter on a few specific fields.
>
> My experience has been that even a reasonably smart subject-line tagging
> system causes far more problems for all list members than it solves for
> the few who are unable (for whatever reason) to use filtering at the
> client level.
>
> Roger
>