Why have you sent a copy to me personally?  That is quite unnecessary.


----- Original Message -----
> From: TJ Frazier <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, 6 January 2012 11:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Forum name in subject
> 
> On 1/5/2012 18:56, Terry wrote:
>>  Surely it is a straightforward matter to filter all emails addressed to 
> [email protected]
>> 
>> 
> Surely it is not. You should get two copies of this particular email 
> (I'll get three). Try to filter your pair into different folders. It may 
> be possible, by using deep-inside headers; it would not in the least be 
> straightforward.  --/tj/
>> 
>>  ----- 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.
>>> 
>>> 
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>> 
>>  ----- 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/
>>> 
>

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