Surely it is a straightforward matter to filter all emails addressed to [email protected]
----- Original Message ----- > From: James Knott <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Friday, 6 January 2012 12:29 AM > Subject: Re: Forum name in subject > > Mike Scott wrote: >> On 04/01/2012 23:19, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: >>> Rob, >>> >>> Good point. If there is no one who uses this list that objects in the > time window, I'll take it to ooo-dev and from there as appropriate. >>> >>> - Dennis >> >> A mild objection here... prefixes at the start of the subject line clutter > a limited screen space. I loath them, and there are better ways of achieving > the > end that don't involve overloading the subject text. >> >> Would it not be better to use an email header to flag the source, then > those that want can use their mail reader to file in suitable places. (I > currently crudely filter on 'to' address and 'return-path' to > achieve this) >> >> I'm probably a minority of one though :-) >> >> > > Please explain how that flag will enable sorting on mail list, as I mentioned > earlier? With a list name in the subject, sorting the mail list by subject > results in all list messages grouped together. Also, in this day & age, is > display space really an issue. Sure, I could filter into different folders, > but > that's is not the way I want to read the vast majority of mail I read. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > ----- Original Message ----- > From: TJ Frazier <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2012 11:21 PM > Subject: Re: Forum name in subject > > On 1/5/2012 06:22, Harold Fuchs wrote: >> >> "James Knott" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >>> Most of the mail lists I participate in include something to indicate >>> the forum name in the message subject. This makes it a lot easier to >>> identify mail list messages from what might otherwise look like spam. >>> Is it possible for this list to do the same? IIRC, the old OOo list >>> included "Users" in the subject line and libreOffice includes >>> "libreoffice-users". >> >> Isn't the name in the To: header? And isn't that header visible to > all? >> >> Harold Fuchs >> London, England >> > I strongly favor adding to the subject, because: > > (1) The "To:" header is not visible until I open the message. (I might > configure Tb to display it, at the cost of not displaying something more > useful.) > > (2) When the message has "To: Albert CC: ListA, ListB", and I > subscribe to both lists, I get two identical copies (three, if I'm Albert), > which any filter is going to assign to the same folder (whichever filter runs > first *must* catch both copies). With subject markers, I can filter that > easily. > -- /tj/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
