Re: your subject headers and spam/Xywrite: zc=Zero Capitalization

[BrennerNY@xxxxxxxx]

In a message dated 11/13/03 12:55:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, cld@xxxxxxxx writes:

> That said, I could investigate the possibility of inserting some kind of
> "[XyWrite]" tag into the subject headers of all messages sent by the listproc.
> As far as I can determine (and I've looked into it in the past), this is not
> something that I, as list "owner", can control from my desktop; it would
> require action by the U.Penn. SysOp.  Given the prevailing tempora and mores,
> it may be worth asking for.
>
> What does the collective think?
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/


Is it really necessary to go to U.Penn Sys. Op?  It seems a very small favor to ask the list members to add a parenthetical reference to Xywrite in their subject lines -- e.g. Zero capitalization (Xywrite). It would occasionally be helpful to those who back up their electronic spam filters with the eyes-and-finger method of filtering. 

Granted, ambiguous subject lines to the Xywrite list are rare. Still, I hesitated for a second over `Zero Capitalization'  before I realized it was a Xywrite message; had I been moving faster, I could easily have deleted it as spam that got through the electronic filter.

Lynn  Brenner