My Reply follows quote. On 02/02/2004 12:12 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Mon, 2 Feb 2004 11:22:18 -0800 (PST), david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip>About [PCI] list email subject line additions....If this is a vote, I would love to see the "list abrev." in the subject line. It would make it so much easier to manage my email.
-- I intended it to be a kind of vote I guess - and added it to my subject line more as an example than anything else. It certainly makes scanning your inbox easier when you get over 100 mails a day (no comments about digest please - I like it this way !!)
I get 300-500 mails a day and the biggest problem I have with them are the lists that do have [ListName] appended to the subject.
> >Maybe the list moderators could setup some kind of poll. I have no ideahow many listees there are who never post to list but might be quite happy to answer an official poll.
Any ideas to make life easier are welcome IMO.----------- The only things that go to my inbox are SPAM and PRIORITY messages. All others are sorted into sub folders by mailing list or other criteria. No scanning required. Just dump the SPAM, read the PRIORITY stuff, then start in on the list mail.
Which is exactly what I do. I'm curious what software people are using that doesn't allow filtering. Even my PDA mail program does filtering. Yahoo and Hotmail do it.
I am on several lists that do have the [ListName] appended to the subject and it is quite annoying. It crowds the subject line, which especially when I'm trying to read mail on my phone is a pain, all I see is the [ListName] until I select the message. It also throws off the thread ordering as you get some response beginning with "Re: [ListName] " and some with "[ListName] Re: and other variations. So instead of a thread all grouped together by Sort by Subject it is split up into two or three blocks.
If people can't learn to use filtering or insist on sticking with a mail reader that doesn't filter then I don't think the rest of us should have to suffer for it.
If you don't know how to set up a filter or need suggestions on a mail reader program that does filter then FCOL, post a question to the list.
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Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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