On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, asmusf@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
> At 03:38 AM 3/22/01 +0000, Christopher John Fynn wrote:
>>But you can also filter mails based on the To: header "To:
>>unicode@unicode.org" - every mail client I've seen that supports
>>filtering lets you filter based on that header.
>
> Except if the message is a cc:...
Setups that have an option to filter messages based on addresses
should be clever enough to hunt through To: , Cc: and other relevant
headers anyway.
However, sorting based on addresses is unreliable. Suppose that you
have a mail going to several lists that you're subscribed to. What
happens then? And what happens if someone sends you a private copy of
a mail that is also going to the list?
> Actually of more interest to me is the ability *not* to filter
> certain mail lists until *after* I have read them in chronological
> sequence. Having the subject tag allows me to know a messages
> context in such a situation, since there is no way for me,
> currently, to show the TO header in the message summary.
As I've said before, relying on this information to be correct will
sooner or later produce incorrect results. There are other ways to
produce the behaviour that you want, though they all require a bit
more work.
> Hideki summed it up best - I won't repeat his comment, go back and
> read it.
I can not find any mail by any person by that name on this list.
Perhaps that was a private reply?
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