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[mwl+blu at alumni.unh.edu (mike ledoux)]

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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001, Jerry Feldman wrote:

>Actually not entirely true. Most mail clients on Microsoft cannot filter on
>other than the standard exposed headers (eg. From:, To:, cc:, and
>subject:).

Can these clients filter on the standard footer that the mailinglist
adds?

>This list is generally easy to filter when people use to or cc, but when
>someone uses bcc, it becomes difficult with Windows mail clients. I am
>not aware of any that can filter on the unexposed headers, such as
>X-List-Info, which appears to be stripped by exchange.

Bcc'ing a mailing list has long been considered poor form.  Perhaps
not here, but I know that many lists block such messages from ever
reaching the list.

That aside, it seems to me that a Linux & Unix user group should not
necessarily cater to brain-dead Microsoft mail clients.  A wide
variety of software is available that *can* easily filter on the
Sender field, including several Windows clients (Eudora Pro, Pegasus,
and Netscape Mail are three that I've seen this done with, I'm also
told that Outlook97 can filter on any header field)[1].

Worst case, if someone's client can't filter their mail according to
their needs, they have at least three options:  change clients,
subscribe in digest mode, or just live with it.

>BTW: I'm sending this with discuss at blu.org set up as a bcc with Mike in
>the to: header (Mike, sorry for the duplicates).

No problem.

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[1] I can provide some basic assistance configuring filtering with the
    three clients I specified.  If you use Outlook, may god have mercy
    on your soul^W^W^W^W^W^W^Wyou're on your own.
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