linux-l: Life on Mailing Lists [000524]

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 08:16:41PM +0200, Sven Guckes wrote:
>   list-reply
>    So you will have to tell mutt which addresses are mailing lists. You
>    can configure this with the config command "lists":
> 
>         lists linux-l
> 
>    Now mutt knows that linux-l at DOMAIN is the address of a mailing list.

Please mention that "linux-l" (and anything else after "lists") is a
regular expression and thus a little bit more powerful;)

>   Filtering
>    Besides, most mailing lists can be identified by the address that you
>    send to - so a mail filter makes Subject munging superfluous.

This is *very* important!

>                          MailList - MailList Signature
> 
>    Some managers add their own signatures with additional information, eg
>    the maillist's homepage address and commands for unsubscribing.
> 
>    Again, the main indea is good: Additional information in every
>    messages to prevent subscribers from asking the bleeding obvious.
> 
>         MailList HomePage:     http://www.maillist.org/
>         MailList Unsubscribe:  echo unsubscribe | maillist at maillist.org
                                              ____-^-____
You want to call some executable, don't you?

>    mailer
>           Short for "mail program". The technical term is "Mail User
>           Agent" (MUA).

Don't use "mailer" that often. It's ambiguous...
>      _________________________________________________________________

>   Sven Guckes guckes-maillist at math.fu-berlin.de
                <guckes-maillist at math.fu-berlin.de>


My $0.02;)

MfG, JBG

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