I agree with the various people who have said that identifying lists in
the subject line is not a good idea. Like most people on this list I use
mail filtering software to sort mail from lists into standard folders.
The problem is that every list is slightly different in the best header
to filter on, and usually you have to change your filters if the list moves
to a new location or the list owner changes the software they use.
I would like to see a standard header for all mailing lists, for example:
List-name: list-managers
which I could rely on to filter lists. (Unfortunately this would have to
be agreed by all the authors of list management software, which makes it
highly unlikely to ever be implemented in the consistent way which would
allow such fancy things as:
o I subscribe to a list, and my MUA sees this header, knows it is from a list,
and creates a folder for it, and adds filtering rules - all automatically.
John Lines
