[Elecraft] email reflector headers glitch or "feature"

[Mike S]

At 09:54 PM 8/2/2004, Kevin Rock wrote...
>How are we to tell when there is a personal message to us instead of the usual message to the Reflector?  I find this new, improved (?????) version of the mailing system to be far less than optimal.

It's apparently been changed back to the way it was, but in answer to your question, it's a simple matter of doing things in the correct manner. From:, To: and Subject: headers are, in general, unreliable and/or ambiguous indicators of the proximate message source. If a user sends a message to both the list and another user, then the recipient will get two copies via different routes. By "proximate source," I mean to differentiate between a message received directly and one received via the list server. 

One possible method of reliable filtering has already been given. There are others. You need to identify and use a header which is unique to the proximate source.