On 8 Oct 1999, Frank D. Cringle wrote:
>"Anthony Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I'm not sure if I'm being a bit fussy here, or indeed banging my head
>> against a wall but can users of these mailing lists make the Subject part of
>> the msg more descriptive.
>>
>>
>> Also, as most of us are on several mailing lists, maybe a prefix of some
>> sort would be handy. MP for mod_perl or AMP Apache/mod_perl or XML for
>> ......
>
>I agree with your first point but not the second. Every message on
>the list already contains sufficient information about its origin, in
>other headers. You will be much happier if you use a mailreader that
>can sort mail into separate groups based on return-path, or use a
>preprocessor like procmail to do it.
>
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>Hmmm. hotmail. I know very little about hotmail. Doesn't it have
>facilities for this?
>
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>Frank Cringle, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I too would prefer some sort of abreviation prepended to the Subject
header. This makes it much easier to sort and identify (eg. 'mp:', 'm_p:'
or 'mod_perl:', etc.). Many other lists I'm on do this: [NTBUGTRAQ] for
example. When you're subscribed to many lists (esp. technical ones) this
can be very helpful.
Also, inserting a Reply To header pointing to the list address would be
helpful.
-j-
