On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 08:35:38AM EST, Nicolas Rachinsky wrote: > * David Yitzchak Cohen <lists+mutt_users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2004-02-22 02:05 > -0500]: > > Think of it this way: my posts serve as a wakeup call to those who haven't > > yet decided to learn how to use Mutt properly. They must learn to either > > ignore me, or to filter out my headers. Much good comes from the latter, > > and the former can't hurt. > > I can't help it, but this reminds me of spam advertising spam > filters. ;-) > I don't see any use in most of your X- headers. For example the MS > specific headers aren't of much use on this list. I'd think so too, but take a look at how many Outlookers appear on our list. > Why do you need > to include three unusable links to your GPG Key? nuked > Why do you need > to tell everybody in every mail how geek you are, or what OS you > want to use? ditto > I don't think you really need to explain your address > in every mail. same as above > And I really think, everybody who sees your headers > and might want to ignore them already knows which he wants to ignore, > so you don't have to list them all once again. That last header allows people to automatically filter all my funny headers from any given mail on-the-fly. A while ago, I demonstrated a rather insecure way of using that header automatically. The same thing can be done in production, as long as proper checks are done before acceptance of the header. > Why don't you list all the headers you ever wanted to include in your > on your homepage. Then you can remove them from your mails and replace > them by one header with an URL pointing to your headers. done :-) Thanks for your feedback, as always, - Dave -- Uncle Cosmo, why do they call this a word processor? It's simple, Skyler. You've seen what food processors do to food, right? Please visit this link: http://rotter.net/israel
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