RE: your subject headers and spam/Xywrite: zc=Zero Capitalizatio n

["EBERLE, JIM" JEBERLE@xxxxxxxx]

The "To" header isn't enough because I don't see that until I open the e-mail. If I don't recognize the sender, I simply delete e-mail without opening it.

Jim Eberle

-----Original Message-----
From: Carl Distefano [mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:51 PM
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: your subject headers and spam/Xywrite: zc=Zero
Capitalizatio n


> I like the idea of an "xywrite" or "xy" tag in the subject line, even though I
> don't have a filtering problem. I'd like the designation simply to know that
> the e-mail comes from the list since I can't tell that from the "From" header.
>
> Jim Eberle

What about the To: header? Why isn't that enough? (See my post of a couple
of minutes ago.)

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Carl Distefano
cld@xxxxxxxx
http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
> I like the idea of an "xywrite" or "xy" tag in the subject line, even though I
> don't have a filtering problem. I'd like the designation simply to know that the
> e-mail comes from the list since I can't tell that from the "From" header.
>
> Jim Eberle
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cld@xxxxxxxx [mailto:cld@xxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:22 PM
> To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: your subject headers and spam/Xywrite: zc=Zero
> Capitalizatio n
>
>
> Quoting "Ambos, Paul" :
>
> > I see no problem with status quo. And what would upenn add that is any more
> > distinctive than the listserve address?
>
> The issue, as I understand it, is that many, or perhaps most, mail clients do
> not display the "xywrite@" address in the From: header; they display, instead,
> the name and address of the individual poster. As a result, some people can't
> establish a filtering rule (e.g., "do not delete" or "move to folder XyWrite")
> using the From: header.
>
> The thought was that a "[xywrite]" tag in the Subject: header would enable
> filtering under any mail program. Now the Reply-to: header, which also (and, I
> believe, invariably,) contains the "xywrite@" address, would also work for this
> purpose. But the problem there is that some mailers don't allow for filtering
> on the Reply-to: header. Some filtering systems (including some Web mail
> systems) limit the choices to, for example, the To:, Cc:, From: and Subject:
> headers (in addition to the message body itself).
>
> On the other hand, don't _all_ messages from the list _always_ include the
> "xywrite@" address in the To: header? Is there anyone here for whom that is NOT
> true? If the To: header is 100% reliable, there would be no need to tinker with
> the Subject:, because (surely) every filter can operate on To:.
>
> --
> Carl Distefano
> cld@xxxxxxxx
> http://users.datarealm.com/xywwweb/
>