Russell McMahon wrote:
> 
> Always nice to be appreciated :-)
> And I'm always ready to entertain arguments that demonstrate the falsity of
> my positionon GM (or anything else)
> 
> However, his point is (probably) valid.
> If you don't appreciate the pearls of wisdom of yours truly or others on the
> OT tag then it would lead to more harmonious relations if it could be
> excluded. Is it possible to set filters or TAGS when receiving the digest so
> that eg the [OT] thread is not received?
> If this is not officially supported is there a reasonable work around.
> Even better would be the ability to filter out selected miscreants -
> although this is almost certainly asking too much.
> Any of this is easily done by recipients on a per message basis when
> receiving individual messages.
> 
> 
> 
>         RM

I don't want to start a flame-war, but IMO the digest version should be 
expected to include everything. A much more efficient way of doing 
things is filtering incoming messages: send all messages with "To: 
piclist@mit.edu" into your "piclist" folder. Any message with "[OT]" in 
the subject should go to the trash then if that person doesn't want to 
read it. Digest mode is horrible for following conversations and a waste 
of time. IMO...YMMV and other TOFLA [three or four letter acronyms]

AFAIK [oops 5 chars]
The only mail reader I know of that doesn't support filtering and 
different folders is WebTV. I think even AOL does [though AOL does 
seriously mess up MIME types and confuse Mailman].

That's how I do things. I get about 300 emails a day, it would be 
unbearable if I did not filter.

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