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

[cld@xxxxxxxx]

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:.

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Carl Distefano
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