Re: Filtering Messages (was: *** Admin thoughts

I am on AOL 5.0 & the obvious solution would be to wean me off of AOL & onto 
some other ISP offering ... AOL does not offer any filtering.  None, other 
than the ability to block spam from known return addresses which is useless 
because the same stuff comes from a different address every time, so all I 
use that for is to block some domains that generate the most excess.  It is 
all or nothing for AOL filters.

One of the lists I subscribe to is the Wiring Harness Manufacturing 
Association WHMA.ORG ... all messages from them come with an insert of WHMA 
in the front of the Subject line, no matter what the end user had keyed.  
This is a nice way to recognize all posts that came from that source, except 
for the nuisance that most people's e-mail reply messages default to Re: the 
old text, which again gets WHMA inserted in the beginning.

We know on Midrange-L that the process can lead to many excess chunks of the 
"What list is this" in the signature area.  Well in the WHMA list, that can 
lead to many excess copies of "WHMA & Re" on the subject line.  So the state 
of art of this kind of software ideally needs to only add M_L or B_L or 
whatever to the front of the Subject line if that string is not already 
provided.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
http://www.cen-elec.com MIS Manager Programmer & Computer Janitor
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