Hi, I think it's a rather naive idea. If people don't change the subject line, which is written in natural language, what makes you think we will stick to a system of more or less arbitrary and incomplete codes?
Why would anybody put themselves to more effort just to relieve you of the burden of doing your own editing? -- Cheers, Bob Monday, January 26, 2004, 7:33:02 AM, you wrote: > I'm having a hard time eliminating messages about digital. Most of the > recent ones have subject lines that make identification impossible. While I > am impressed sometimes by the amount of detail and level of the information > on digital cameras being passed around I'd rather not have it. A simple D: > on the subject line would help those non-digital members (and me) who don't > want that information. I had more than 200 messages in my PDML inbox a few > days ago and I simply deleted the lot because I was too busy to go through > them all. I'm sure to have missed something interesting. > I suggested D: F: S: and P: the other day in addition to the well known OT: > but there was no positive response ... only a few facetious remarks. I > filter *ist, *ist D, ist D, and digital but this no longer does the trick. > Don
