Re: NANOG Featured on "Packet Pushers" Podcast Network! 🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! + More

[Tom Beecher via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

Man, I dunno.

It's 1 email a week. Getting it or not getting it doesn't even register for
me. We've generated 2 months of email 'noise' just talking about it.



On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 4:13 PM Mel Beckman via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
wrote:

> But the news () nanog org header only appears because it is a CC.  This may
> not be consistent and it’s certainly not obvious or convenient to filter on.
>
> Perhaps Nanog will meet us halfway, and put right in the subject line
> “NANOG promotional email” or something like that.
>
> Seriously. Or just let people subscribe toe news () nanog org if they want
> those things.
> -mel via cell
>
> > On Nov 28, 2025, at 11:10 AM, Roman Tatarnikov via NANOG <
> nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
> > Ah, the power of `procmail`:
> >
> >    PROCDIR=$HOME/.config/procmail
> >
> >    :0
> >    * ^List-Id: .*\<([a-z0-9-]+\.)?arin\.net\>
> >    {
> >        SWITCHRC=$PROCDIR/arin.list
> >    }
> >
> >    :0
> >    * ^List-Id: (North American Network Operators
> Group|.*\<(.+\.)?nanog\.org\>)
> >    {
> >        SWITCHRC=$PROCDIR/nang.list
> >    }
> >
> >    # vim: set filetype=procmail:
> >
> > Not many know about `INCLUDERC` and `SWITCHRC` directives in `procmail`.
> But
> > hopefully you got the idea. And it will help you break-down `procmail`
> config
> > into multiple ones and group filters based on categories.
> >
> > Didn't knew about Google Apps Script. Thanks Tom. Gives me something to
> look
> > into.
> >
> > And happy holidays everyone.
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 01:03:52PM -0500, Tom Beecher via NANOG wrote:
> > > > That’s great news, Tom! Perhaps you’ll share your filter for dropping
> > > > NANOG promotional emails? And no fair using ChatGPT :)
> > >
> > >
> > > In my Google Apps Script that I use for header based filtering, I would
> > > just do this:
> > >
> > > ...
> > >  // NANOG Newsletters
> > >  var from_h = message.getHeader("From");
> > >  var reply-to_h = message.getHeader("Reply-To");
> > >  if ( (from_h.includes('nanog-announce () lists nanog org') &&
> > > reply-to_h.includes('news () nanog org')) {
> message.getThread().addLabel(GmailApp.getUserLabelByName("NANOG-Promo"));
> > >    message.getThread().moveToArchive();
> > >  }
> > > ...
> > >
> > > In a real mail client this is easier, but same idea.
> >
> > --
> > Roman V Tatarnikov | https://linkedin.com/in/rtatarnikov
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