its mainly a visual cue and "rules wizard helper" But if you are handling your poping within rebol scripts, it is easier to sort them out with the tags, I find.
so far, I find its really helping me visually scanning the contents of my rebol mailbox. I notice the main topic before anything else and my brain automatically snaps to its context before reading the first line. many people used to write things like : "within view", "view problem..." so its not really longer to write anyways. now because there is a [view] in most people's message, the context is explicit and I find its easier to quickly scan 30 mails at a time, for those which simply don't interest/affect me. I am happy the idea took up so quickly. :-) cheers -MAx --- "You can either be part of the problem or part of the solution, but in the end, being part of the problem is much more fun." > -----Original Message----- > From: Steven White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 6:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [REBOL] Re: subject tags... > > > > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/17/03 04:19PM >>> > >>> > >>>is anyone into adding [tag] in the subject of list messages to > create easy >>>rule wizards for use by all? > > I like the idea, although I do not know how to implement it. I am > getting swamped by messages. I scan them all because just a few are > VERY helpful, but most are beyond my ability to understand at this > time. > > With tags, I could transfer my rebol-list subscription to my home POP > account instead of my office account, and write a REBOL script to: > > * Scan all email messages. > > * Download any with REBOL in the subject, and leave the rest > on the POP > site for my spouse. > > * Scan for the tag. > > * Look for a disk file called something like REBOLMAIL.[tag]. > > * Append the message to the end of the file. > > * Examine the latest update dates of all my REBOLMAIL files. > > * Send me a note of any that have changed on that day. > > Then I could read the changed files. Maybe when I appended the day's > mail I could append a marker showing the start of the day's > entries, and > just use VIM to read the file. If I wanted to respond, I > could copy and > paste, into the response, the segment of text representing > that message > being answered. > > Hmm, that does sound like a lot of work. Still, tags would help in > scanning by eye also. The script could be "left as an > exercise for the > reader," or posted in the library. > > Steven White > City of Bloomington > 1800 W Old Shakopee Rd > Bloomington MN 55431-3096 > USA > 952-563-4882 (voice) > 952-563-4672 (fax) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject. > > -- To unsubscribe from this list, just send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe as the subject.
