The 'Re:' goes before the mailing list name. How is that munged? What is ugly about it? I can glance at my inbox and immediately tell the list mail from the personal mail. Looking for headers is fine for an automated filter, but it doesn't work for the built-in preprocessor I use -- my eyes... Actually, I don't think Pine can filter on the headers, anyway, so I'm kind of unlucky there, too. Darn, no graphics either, but I'll keep using it... I'm on 12 lists total, four of which are at OpenSRS. They are the only one's that do not prefix the subject line. I've gotten spoiled, I guess. I appreciate getting the content delivered on these lists, and even though I don't do a lot of domain registration, I'm still very interested in keeping up to date on OpenSRS. I'm also happy to pipe up if I do know something useful (which means I'm usually pretty quiet...) Not having a visible method of sorting the new mail is bothersome. On the obscure posts, I have to open them to make sure they are list-related and not from a customer with a DNS problem. On the threads, I can read what I want then sort by the subject and get one thread at a time moved to my OpenSRS archive. On a prefixed list, I can quickly tell the context, read what I want, and accurately grab every list-related message and move it to an archive in about fifteen keystrokes. That's very useful to me. Rob Martin On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, David Harris wrote: > > > The other mailing lists I'm on, including several that I run, are using > > Mailman rather than Majordomo, which has a beautiful feature that > > prefixes the subject of a message with the name of a list in brackets. > > For instance, this message, on Mailman, would have the subject > > "[discuss-list] Mailing List Mechanics (was: Spammers Mining..." Among > > other things, it makes it very easy to have my mail client sort and > > filter messages to my archives, where I sometimes refer back to them, > > but mostly just use hard drive space. Of course, it also makes it easier > > to identify the subject, as the list name gives it context. > > Please don't do this. I'm on other lists that do this and the [discuss-list] > text always gets munged around when the "Re:" is added. It looks ugly. And most > lists out there don't do this subject line trick. > > If you want to filter your messages, then look for a header line that the > mailing list adds. For this list I'm filtering based on the "Sender: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]" header line. Works just fine. > > David Harris > President, DRH Internet Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.drh.net/ > > > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Welcome to MS-Linux version 3.0. Please enter your login name, or press escape to login as root. login: > _ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
