On Sun, 9 May 1999, Chad Walker wrote:

    Considering that ALL things that have [FFML] are directly moved to
my FFML folder, and into the substrings appropriate to the subject, I

This is the wrong way to do it. You should filter on the X-List: header,
or maybe the Sender: header. Filtering on subject is prone to false
positives. I do understand poor-man's (jargon, it means simple -- procmail
is free and yet one of the most powerful mail filters available...)
implementations of mail filters won't do it, though.

Here is a suggestion for the entire list: Modify the [FFML] header to
something like [FF-ML} or in some other way when it is private so that

I don't think this will work, people here can't be bothered to even read
the FAQ and use the suggested [] tags... let alone do something that
(gasp) would require them to think for a split second and correct the
subject.

This message was sent to the ML in a (futile) attempt to call attention to
a better way to do FFML mail filtering, and maybe avoid other
'private->public' postings problem (a hideous violation of nettiquete in
most cases).

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