On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Daniel Glassey wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 14:15, Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Apr 2004, Daniel Glassey wrote:
> >
> > ....
> >
> > > Why would you need to? Iiuir what you do is add a [flashcards] prefix to
> > > your message subject for flashcards messages etc, then if people
> > > receiving the list want to filter flashcards messages differently from
> > > other jsword-devel messages then they can.
> > >
> > > Hmmm ... sounds like a very good idea for sword-devel ;)
> >
> > It makes the real subject almost unreadable. This message showed up as:
> >
> >    135 Apr  1 Daniel Glassey      (4155) [sword-devel] [flashcards] Re: [jsword
> >
> > As you see not much room left for any usefull information regarding the
> > subject.
>
> The sword-devel and jsword-devel bits automatically get added by
> mailman. Obviously that would be switched off!
>
> btw if anyone is filtering on the subject take note that you can filter
> on other headers that are always the same like
> List-Id:  SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum
> <sword-devel.crosswire.org>

List ID is not a vey good one. This mailman mailinglist can be identified
very will with: X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unfortunatly some email clients claim to be userfriendly and do not have
the ability to use any of these headers anyway. (Outlook Express is one of
these 'capabilities impaired'.)

Hugo.

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