At 3:35 AM -0400 8/14/02, Tapani Tarvainen is rumored to have typed:
But why shouldn't they, when it's the easiest way?
Because it is NOT necessarily the "easiest way." On our moderated lists, a simple password is placed in the Subject: header field. Others easily add the Approved: header field as the first line of the mail body. So I would argue that applying a custom header field is the LEAST "easy" method.
Besides I rather want it to be easier on unixy clients... ;-)
What's the difference if I add the approval to the first line of the body in Eudora or pine, Outlook Express or elm? Honest, you're welcomed to do whatever you wish, and I encourage your efforts; at the same time, I find it interesting that you're applying procmail filters yourself to work around the difficulties; why not apply one of the boatloads of available filters to rc.local.s00 that allow the Approval: to be the first line of the body? Charlie