In message E0yzhVI-0003Um-00@pearl.localnet, Nigel Metheringham writes:

pde@listserv.music.sony.com said: } Erm. } To: toasters@mathworks.com

Which also means that your reply, sent directly to me, would be filed as mailing list mail, rather than a direct message to me.... [assuming that the To: included Cc:]

What are you using to filter your mail? Can't you just file the mail into your list folder if it contains "toasters@mathworks.com" and not "Nigel.Metheringham@theplanet.net"?

You're using exmh as your mailer, so I'd guess you are on a *nix system. If you don't have procmail installed, grab it, install it, read the docs, and finally beat your head against the wall lamenting all the time you've wasted without it. The procmail recipe would be something like this:

:0 H : * ^TO.*toasters@mathworks.com * !^TO.*Nigel.Metheringham@theplanet.net $MAILDIR/toaster-list

If you want to get really fancy, you can use a weighted scoring technique to throw out all the "me too"s and "subscribe" messages that have been comming through lately.

:0 H : * ^TO.*toasters@mathworks.com * !^TO.*Nigel.Metheringham@theplanet.net { # This will trash mail whose ratio of quoted lines # to original lines exceeds 1:2. :0 Bh * 20^1 ^> * -10^1 ^[^>] /dev/null

# If the message contains the word "subscribe" all by itself # on a line in the body, trash the message unless there are # at least 15 non-blank lines in the message. :0 B * 15^0 ^[ ]*subscribe[ ]*$ * -1^1 [^ ]+ /dev/null

# Anything left, leave in a folder for later. :0: $MAILDIR/toaster-list }

[probably need to take this thread off the list before I get seriously flamed :-) ]

Nigel.

I'll risk just this one follow-up. Your question might not have been "on topic", but people might find this useful.

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