Filtering to Avoid Siouan List Postings Being Identified as Artificial Meat

[Koontz John E]

The subject-line has been phrased that way to avoid over generous filters
that filter on the usual word for artificial meat!

We obviously can't avoid having postings classified as a.m., but it
occurred to me that we could make it a bit easier to determine whether
they were actually a.m.  To this end I looked to see if I could insert the
words [Siouan List] into the subject line.  I discovered that the aging
(superannuated, really) ListProc program that CU uses does not provide a
feature of this.  (The consortium that produced ListProc has actually
formally disbanded itself.)

In addition, though the comment "Siouan Linguistics List" is supposed to
be included in all to-fields, and I think at one time it was, it now is
not.  The varying non-address text that you see there is acutally provided
by whoever posted the letter.

However, as far as I can tell, all arriving letters have the text
siouan at lists.colorado.edu in the to-field, perhaps with additional
material surrounding it.  So, if you set up a filter to direct letters
with this text in the to-field into a folder, specify not to do any
further alternative filtering to such letters, and place this filter
before any filters you have that direct letters with a.m. or equivalent
into a trash folder, you should be able to guarantee that you receive
letters sent to the list, as long as a.m. letters are still actually
delivered to you and not deleted out of hand by the authorities.
Forwarding them with an identifiying mark in the subject or the body of
the message is still the usual practice.

John E. Koontz
http://spot.colorado.edu/~koontz