Subject: Why the plus sign?

From: Kevin Yeung <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 19:46:40 +0800 (HKT)

Hi,

I think this question has been asked before, but I am wondering if 
somebody's gonna tell me again.

On a mailing list, Pine shows a plus sign before an email which is Cc'd to
[email-masked], when my email address is [email-masked] and
[email-masked].  Why?  Does Pine only match the username and 
ignore the domain name?  Thanks a lot.

--
Kevin Yeung
email: [email-masked]

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From: Chip Old <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 1995 22:38:13 -0500 (EST)

> ignore the domain name?  Thanks a lot.
 
It was asked before - by me - but I never saw a definative answer.  On my
system the problem is actually the opposite of yours:  Mail addressed to
user@mail (i.e. from someone on the same machine) always gets the plus
sign, but mail addressed to [email-masked] sometimes does and
sometimes does not. It's very frustrating to users whose personal mail is
buried among hundreds of mailing list messages, since they can't count on
the plus signs to make their personal mail easily identifiable. 
 
The only pattern I can discern (but can't guarantee 100% reproducability) is:
 o Mail to user@mail from a sender on the same machine always shows up 
   with a plus sign.
 o Mail to [email-masked] from a sender on the same machine 
   (mail) sometimes gets a plus sign, sometimes not.
 o Mail to [email-masked] from a sender _not_ on the same 
   machine always get a plus sign.
 
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