Filtering on [GZG-L]

> trapper wrote:

To be honest, I think it doesn't really get you anything. Most people already
tuck [OT] or [FT] or [DSII] or whatever in front of their posts, and you
should be able to sort by the 'to' address or the 'source' address of the
message.

Right now, for example, I'm filtering on "To:" contains "GZG-L@CSUA",
which works like a charm.

J.

> Jerry Han wrote:

> > Now that the new list is up and running, how does everyone feel

> already tuck [OT] or [FT] or [DSII] or whatever in front of their

Except that on my mailer it doesn't catch "gzg-l@CSUA", "GZG-L@csua" or
"gzg-l@csua". I found this out the hard way, having recieved all four
variants over the past few days - so I now have all these variants as
entries. I could (probably) cut it to two, though - "GZG-L@" and
"gzg-l@"
- will try now. (Hopefully no-one will use "GZG-l" or "gzg-L", or some
other combination of upper and lower cases...)

Your entry also won't catch gzg-l@vex.cs.colorado.edu, which seems to be
an alternative address - at least I've recieved Starfire list posts
directed to "starfire@vex.cs.coloradu.edu" rather than
"starfire@csua.berkeley.edu" several times during the past four years.
The short version (gzg-l@) should work, though.

My (currently) sixth "sort GZG posts" is for those posts that are only
CCed to the list rather than being sent directly - though I really need
two of those rather than just one to catch the variants listed above. I
just haven't had any CCed posts to more than "GZG-L@" yet :-/

Later,

> Oerjan Ohlson wrote:
or
> "gzg-l@csua". I found this out the hard way, having recieved all four

Hmmm. What mailer are you using? I'm using the Netscape 4.5 mail filter.
I would have thought most filters would be case-insensitive.  I guess
I'm lucky. (Or unlucky, in that I can't use my first mailer choice, Elm with
filter program.)

J.

Jerry Han asked:

> > > Right now, for example, I'm filtering on "To:" contains
or
> > "gzg-l@csua". I found this out the hard way, having recieved all

and failed to filter them correctly at first, that is...

> > - so I now have all these variants as entries.

> Hmmm. What mailer are you using?

Some Microsoft c**p - it calls itself "Internet Mail", but I'm not sure
if that's what it is marketted as :-/ There are some good features about
it, but... there are many deficiencies as well. This is one of them :-(

Please don't suggest that I download another mail handler unless there's one
which is less than about 100KB to download. That's the biggest file size I can
be reasonably certain of downloading in less than 10 attempts,
without my ISP breaking the connection *every* time :-(

> I also wrote:

> > I could (probably) cut it to two, though - "GZG-L@" and "gzg-l@"

Tried this; it works. I have now cut the GZG filtering down to 4 cases:

"To" includes "GZG-L@"
"To" includes "gzg-l@"
"Copy" includes "GZG-L@"
"Copy" includes "gzg-l@"

I also re-tried not using the lower-case variants; sure enough, I got
the
gzg-l posts (but not the GZG-L ones) in my inbox instead. Bad place for
them to be, they sort of disappear among the SDS mail :-/

Later,

> On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Jerry Han wrote:

> already tuck [OT] or [FT] or [DSII] or whatever in front of their

Actually it buys you a lot -- a consistent header to use for filtering,
regardless of the mail software you're using. I'm using procmail, so I have to
pay close attention to the headers, writing different rules for all of the
exceptions until the whole list filters correctly.

> Right now, for example, I'm filtering on "To:" contains "GZG-L@CSUA",

Except when the message ends up looking like this: