On May 1, 2007, at 13:16, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote:
On Tue, 1 May 2007, Juan Manuel Palacios wrote:
On May 1, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Salvatore Domenick Desiano wrote:
Have we had the mailng list prefix argument? As my spam
increases, I find it
very useful to be able to visually pick out which items are from
MacPorts.
I'm sure I can write a filter to prepend it on my end, but I'm
noticing it
from a number of other lists recently and I find it useful. There
is, of
course, the counter argument about wasting screen real estate.
Even [MPD]
and [MPU] would help.
Why not use the "List-Id" header field (its value for this list
being "MacPorts project developers list
<macports-dev.lists.macosforge.org>") to rule based filter messages
sent to this list? You can create a mailbox and send all these
messages in there, just a suggestions (which works dandy for me!)
I've considered this, but my general mail handling data flow precludes
multiple mailboxes (at least for e-mail to a given e-mail address). If
MP mail went to a different folder, I'd never read it. I suspect
this is
the case for many people.
Well, the lists originally had a prefix, but it was removed following
the discussion "Remove list prefix?" available here:
http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2006-September/
thread.html
Granted, the discussion also argued for using an abbreviated prefix
like "[MPD]". But the List-Id header is sufficient to configure your
mail program's filters. I have it configured to move mail to another
mail folder. If you don't want to do that, you can have your mail
program do something else -- whatever options your mail program
offers. Set the color of the message when shown in the list, for
example. However, I recommend you use separate mail folders. It
really is much better. Why do you think you would never read mail in
another folder?
List prefixes are problematic for various reasons. They take up
horizontal space in the message list, as you know. And things become
worse when messages are cross-posted to multiple lists and then gain
multiple prefixes.
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