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Lisa Sobierajski Avila lisa.avila at kitware.com
Fri Mar 3 14:19:06 EST 2000


Hi Tony,

You just need to get GE to switch from Outlook to Eudora - in Eudora you 
can specify the rule as "Any Recipient" and it works regardless of what the 
sender aliased it to. I have only one rule and it always works.

Lisa


At 01:42 PM 3/3/00 -0500, Pan, Tony C (CRD) wrote:
>The following is my pet peeve.
>
>The mail sorting would work wonderfully if people would use just *one* 
>distribution list name instead
>of 50, like "vtk", "vtk user mailing list", "vtk list", "vtk mail list", 
>"vtk user list".  I have as
>many inbox rules for my outlook as there are different ways people address 
>this list, and I still
>miss some of them.
>
>It would also be nice if people would just use "to" instead of "cc" and 
>"bcc" when emailing an entire
>group. Since the mail is going to everyone anyway, why put it in cc?  I 
>don't particularly like to
>have two rules for each possible combination of words that addresses the 
>same mail group.
>
>So my suggestions: 1. use a single mail list name. 
>"vtkusers at public.kitware.com" seems pretty good.
>2. use "To" field when mailing the entire group.
>
>or alternatively, have a newsgroup.
>
>
>This is not meant as a flame for the entire group, so don't take it as 
>one.  I welcome constructive
>comments.
>
>Tony C. Pan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Hutton [mailto:T.Hutton at eastman.ucl.ac.uk]
>Sent: Friday, March 03, 2000 5:06 AM
>To: vtkusers at public.kitware.com
>Subject: Re: newsgroup
>
>
>Just a thought, I'm sure email is easier for many people who don't have
>straightforward access to newsgroups.
>
>Also, don't most email programs have a feature that can filter messages
>into separate folders automatically? That's what I do.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Tim.
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