any mail program with filtering or mail rules can do this yes
it can do it to any keyword you specify in a topic...



>    Rhetorical question - can't most e-mail software packages be set up to
>    automatically delete any incoming mail with "[OT]" in the subject line?
>
>No.  Unless you define "most email software" by number of users.  (ie *I*
>don't count "netscape and outlook" as "most email software.")
>
>If you want a moderated list with little off-topic discussion, I think the
>best thing would be to designate your moderator and have them forward mail
>from the existing, normal, PICLIST to the moderated list "if it is deemed
>worthy."  This maintains the chaotic sythesis nature of the original list
>(where discussions waver OT and back on, and bring up side issues that are
>appropriare even if the original thread was OT), while preventing you from
>having to read "all that junk."  Everyone would send their messages to
>PICLIST, and only some people would read moderated versions.
>
>A good moderator might even forward an occasional summary of the [OT]
posts,
>ferretting out short bits of pic-related material, or at least providing
>enough info so that you could go back to the PICLIST archives and read them
>if you decided THAT particular bit of OT discussion wasn't so bad...
>
>A good moderator would be hard to find.   Special "moderating" software
>would help a lot, but I don't know of any that still exists.  (There have
>been interesting research projects along these lines, but I don't think
>any of them have crept into the available commercial products.)
>
>BillW
>