On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> Teri wrote:
>
> > Yes, this is what I understood. Onelist does this for all of its
> > lists. This gives the reader the option to sort by subject. If I
> > have 500 messages and I sort by subject I can quickly scan past
> > the servlet messages or the RMI messages (for that group) etc and
> > look only at messages from co-workers, bosses, etc that I need to
> > deal with more quickly. Ideally no one here would have to do
> > anything differently - just have the list server do an automatic
> > insert. It is a fairly common practice among list servers and
> > sure makes it easier on the reciepients.
>
> You can also meet this need quite easily with an intelligent mail
> reader -- simply filter based on TO address, and put all the
> SERVLET-INTEREST messages into a folder (into which this message
> will automatically be placed), all the RMI-INTEREST messages into a
> different folder, and so on. That way, you don't have to try to
> make every list server manager in the world conform to your
> approach.
FWIW, it would be OK with me if the list were set up to prepend
"[Servlet]" to all new messages (but please, spell it correctly :-).
(One list I'm on was recently changed to do this, and I at first
thought I wouldn't like it, but it turns out I do.)
But as Craig and others point out, it's not necessary to do that to be
able to automatically sort the messages into folders -- for any
non-brain dead mail reader/system (I'll go a little further than Craig
in that regard :-).
Milt Epstein
Research Programmer
Software/Systems Development Group
Computing and Communications Services Office (CCSO)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
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