On topic message about Off topic messages

[Lisa Kachold]

Since many people don't actually use procmailer capable mailers, instead opting for spam filtered free public throw-away mail at Yahoo, Gmail, etc., anyone can ALREADY create filters that limits mail from ANY mailer even MSN
(which offers free domain email) for any subject line following standard RFC that includes the word
"OT" to automagically TRASH, subcategory folder the email email or designate as JUNK.

Since this subject resurfaces for OT discussions in every city for which I have observed Users Groups, due to Linux thinkers finding their roles, professional actions and open systems theory as integral in more than just IT,  it might be a better idea to create a sub-list for PLUG politics called:

Penguin-Open-Politics

> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:11:21 -0700
> From: kurt+plug-discuss at granroth.com
> To: plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: On topic message about Off topic messages
> 
> This list tends to get off topic messages in groups.  Alas, when the OT
> traffic gets pretty heavy, it's often pretty easy to miss on topic
> messages buried in the mix.
> 
> Introducing a procmail script to deal with that!
> 
> :0:
> * ^List-Id: Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss.lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
> * ^Subject:.*OT.*
> $HOME/.plug-discuss\ \(OT\)/
> 
> 
> A few notes on the implementation.  First, it only works with mail
> sent directly to the list.  If you are CCed directly, then the List-Id
> won't.  Typically, I want mail sent to me directly to go through
> my inbox, though, so that's not a problem.  The Subject rule will
> match any instance of OT... even if it's part of another word.  I
> was tempted to put a regex in front and back to limit the matches but
> didn't, since a) it wouldn't handle things like WayOT and the like
> and b) I can't think of many cases where a subject would have OT
> in an existing word, anyway.
> 
> Finally, I am using $HOME as my top-level mostly because of my virtual
> user setup.  You'll likely want to discard that.  Also, the trailing
> forward slash indicates that it's a maildir mailbox.  YMMV.
> 
> :-)
> 

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