offtopic, about subject prefix

Fernando Moreno wrote:

Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:

Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

The prefix is added by the mailing list software. It's there so that
people subscribed to multiple pgsql-* lists can easily distinguish them.
There's no need to include it in your messages.

b

2008/9/3 brian <brian@zijn-digital.com>

Fernando Moreno wrote:

Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:

Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

The prefix is added by the mailing list software. It's there so that people
subscribed to multiple pgsql-* lists can easily distinguish them. There's no
need to include it in your messages.

b

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Thanks for the answer!

Am 2008-09-03 13:33:05, schrieb Fernando Moreno:

Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:

Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

No it is not since the PostgreQL Lists can be filtered perfectly with:

----[ /usr/share/tdtools-procmail/ML_pgsql ]----------------------------
<snip>
:0
* ^X-Mailing-List:.*pgsql-\/[-a-zA-Z0-9].*
{
TMPVAR=${MATCH}
:0
.ML_pgsql.${TMPVAR}/
}
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
:0
* ^List-Post:.*mailto:[-.@a-zA-Z0-9]+>
* ^List-Post:.*mailto:\/[-.@a-zA-Z0-9]+
{
TMPVAR=`echo "${MATCH}" |tr '.' '_' |sed 'y|ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ|abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz|'`
:0
.ML_pgsql.${TMPVAR}/
}
<snip>
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Are messages without this prefix likely to be ignored by automatic filters
or something like that?

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
24V Electronic Engineer
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant

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On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Michelle Konzack
<linux4michelle@tamay-dogan.net> wrote:

Am 2008-09-03 13:33:05, schrieb Fernando Moreno:

Hello, I'm new to this mailing list, and I have a couple of questions:

Is it really necessary to add the [GENERAL] prefix?

No it is not since the PostgreQL Lists can be filtered perfectly with:

----[ /usr/share/tdtools-procmail/ML_pgsql ]----------------------------

A lot of people don't have a way to run procmail and have crappy
mailers that can't filter on arbitrary headers. I guess we're trying
to be nice to them.

-Doug