Since this G prefix was apparently in response to some people who don't
like to filter mail and just have one big "In" mailbox, (as I used to do
back about 1993) perhaps a counter example of how it messes up things for
me: I do filter all G-list mail to its own folder. Sometimes I let it build
up for a few days, then to read the dozens that have accumulated, I sort
the new messages by subject to read them threaded. Now I was just doing
that, and after a while I realised I was reading question after question
and no responses. Eventually I worked out that, while my mail client knows
that "Re: my question" is the same subject as "my question", it doesn't if
they've been munged into "[G]: my question" and "[G] Re: my question", as
the "Re:" has been moved from the beginning of the line.
Thanks a lot.
Alan,
I noticed that too, and I wonder why the G-list is different from the others I'm on. The other lists I'm on that use a tag just look for that tag somewhere in the subject line - they don't require it to be at the front. This is the first list I've ever been on that munges EVERY incoming subject line.
On the Cube list, posts would go like this:
[Cube] test
Re: [Cube] test
and threaded view worked fine.You're not the only one inconvenienced by this.
Eagle
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